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THE DAILY JTOBTM WESTERN. OBUKQ3U. WEDNESDAY. JULY 29. 189a 4 STATE NEWS.

VAIN DELICHT. WBO TUB CREDITORS ARE. The Daily Mnwestera. STATE AM OTTEK SUPPLt OF SILVER. Uncle 8am Already Has Millions of Cart Wlirola Stored Awar.

Tha Washington correspondent of the St Louis Globs Democrat has been inspectlns) Uncle Sam's strong box. and this is what he says about its contents: Uncle San feels a bit sad, and no wonder. He will be compelled to buy all the silver that is Uwa Governing Price. It Is common to hear among farmers the statement that the price of helr commodities has fallen because the price of silver has fallen and that If the price of silver could only be advanced they would be Insured better prices for their products. In this they mistake effects for causes, and attribute to Incidental and correlative conditions the producer of results rather than the results themselves.

The state labor commission has just Issued a pamphlet of statistics bearing on the question of production and prices of farm products. Anyone of the tables presented will disclose to any intelligent person one of tha reasons for the drop in prices during recent years. Laying aside the falling off in demand by reason of the depressed times caused by a disturbance ot the tariff and the shattering of confidence and the lack of government revenues, the enormous increase in production coin-dent therewith is not among the least of the real causes for present low prices. Perhaps no better illustration can be given than in the production and price of oats, which Is one ot the most crops ot this state. The labor commissioner's figures run from 1S70 to 1895 In 1870 the total production of oats In this staTe was 247.277,400 bushels.

From that year until 1895 there Is a rapid increase In the production ot oats, with an occasional drop In the yearly production, only to be greatly Increased, usually the year following, until In 1895 the production was 824,443,537 bushels, or an increase ot 233 per cent since 1870. It must be remembered that in the meantime the use of horses enormously decreased. Bicycles and other means of locomotion have almost placed the horsci In retirement, except for draft purposes. Even with, the enormous Increase In the oat crop, and the cheapening In the price of feed, the demand for horses enormously decreased until, as Is well PaAHiahed at fiee o'clock errry aftemona. ei-apt Sanaa y.

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US. iVOL. 29. NO. 179 sJBHKOSH WISCONSIN WBDNBSDAT, JULY 29, 1896.

The Cass ot ths Ssviuga Banks and the LUa Aeeonence Companies. To the Editor: The deposits In the savings banks of the United States may be roughly stated at $2,000,000,000. This vast sum belongs almost exclusively to wage-earning people and persons living on small) Incomes (their deposits average less than $400), who use these banks for two purposes: 1. For the safe keeping ot their savings. 2.

That these savings may be Improved, or Increased, by the addition of In-, terest for their use. On the other hand, these deposits are loaned in large amounts exclusively to rich men, that is, to those who canafford tolodgewith the banks "gilt-edged" securities for double the amount of the loan granted In each case, and for which the depositors In the aggregate receive about eighty millions of dollars yearly for the use of their money. Nor is this alL Ths borrowers of this money are also, to a man, large employers of labor, and through, them the deposits of the frugal are again returned to the laborers in wages, from which further savings may be made and deposited, and so the wheels of labor snd capital are kept in harmonious motion for ths benefit of all. the rich man and the laboring man being, each In turn, the patron of the other. It Is seen that the depositors In the savings banks are lenders, not borrowers.

The rich men are the borrowers. Now, In the event of the depreciation of the currency through the action of the free silver advocates, who, of those Interested in the savings banks, would be the sufferers? Evidently the depositors, whose claims for money loanedwould be paid oft in the depreciated coin to ith great gain ot the wealthy borrowers. The case of the holders of life assurance policies Is not very unlike that of the depositors in the savings banks. Recent statistics show that on the first ot January last what are known as the "regular" life assurance companies of the United States had 8,893,702 policies In force, covering $5,738,434,772 of assurance. In addition to this, what are known as assessment and fraternal societies claim to have 2,700,000 certificates in force ot a face value of $5,600,000,000.

In the same way as the depositors In savings banks, the holders of policies In life assurance companies become the creditors snd the loaners of money to the rich men of the community. Leaving out the assess ment concerns, the regular companies have assets amounting to $1,168,406,680, earning interest amounting to $502,000,000 annually for policy holders, the actual holders and lenders of this enormous fund. Here, we have over three thousand millions of dollars owned by the depositors In the sav ings banks and the policy holders In the life assurance companies, loaned by them and producing for them an income of one hundred and thirty-two millions of dollars annually. Here we have also. In these policy heldera and depositors combined (after making an allowance for the fact that some men hold seVeral policies, and that some depositors may also be policy holders) a number of voters greater than the number of votes cast for either party at the last presidential election.

Surely if these men have been sufficiently Intelligent and thrifty to save their money and deposit It at Interest In banks, or, as the writer thinks, to do still better In obtaining life assurance, they certainly should be prudent enough not to Imperil It by aiding the revolutionary change advocated by the visionary or the cunning promoters of the silver craze. Their votes alone would be sufficient. If patriotically cast in defense of the national1 honor, to save the country from Its threat ened humiliation and disgrace. And let those among them who may feel aggrieved by the action of some bank, corporation or rich man not be guided by his prejudice to support the free silver advocates of a depreciated currency, and so place himself on) par with the Irishman who, having a grudge against a bank, collected all of Its notes that he could and burned them! New York Sun. THE -PER CAPITA" FAD.

Oas of ths Fallacious Argaments Used by Free Stiver Debater. What a free silver orator lacks In logic: he makes up in reiterated cries for "more money." All the Ills of the country, he de Clares, are curable by unlimited Issues of Inconvertible currency by the government. Is business depressed? Mint more silver dollars; print more currency against silver bullion worth cents an ounce! Let the goldt go! Sliver is the "poor man's money;" let him have plenty of It! So runs the torrential talk of the free sll-verlte snd, avoiding any explanation as to how the "poor man" is going ta get the "people's money" Into his pocket he seeks to give the impression that the United States will make a general and free distribution ot cheap money among the people. These financiers, If they limit themselves at all, say that the country should have a per capita of not less than $50; that the present per capita ot about $24 Is Insufficient and the cause ot tha business depression. They have this term, "per capita," always on the ends of their tongues and charge the "gold bugs" with a deadly conspiracy to keep down the "per capita." At Bt Louis the speeches, boiled down, call only for "more" money," It makes no difference what disasters are entailed) by a revolution of the monetary system, they must have "more money" and they don't oare a continental about tho quality, claiming that' leather discs, stamped "1J.

8., $1," are good enough money for the American people. The free coinage of silver, they say, will satisfy them and there is not a single one of them who has not declared that an Increase in per capita of circulating s.nedlum Is a pos.tlvs Indication ot prosperity. Judged by th.it standard this country has been prosperous without a break ever since ISM, when, with poulation of there was a total circulation of coin and state bank currency of only or a little over $15 per capita. In 1867 the amount of money per capita In th United State was $20.11 and the circulation $18.2 per capita. Ths per capita has steadily Increased until It is now 1.16 on money In the country and $24 in circulation, while the purchasing power of our paper money was brought up from 70 cents In lmil to ltJO cents in 1H7D, where It ha tines stood.

Therefore according to the free sliver doctrine, their own threnodies over ths desperately poor snd oppressed condition of this country sine 1873 art bass fabrications. Minneapolis Journal, PLEA'lir OF MOSEY. Bnealaa Um ot 300,000,000 I. Covered Twenty-lira limes User, Paris, July The Russian loan of franc Issued by the Rothschilds, has been covered twcnty-llv time over. Kngllah Kraahora Village llllrned.

London, July A dispatch from llfra-combs, ths well-known bathing place on th north coast of Devonshire, announces that halt the business portion of that place hs burned this morning, Involving loss estimated to amount to 100,000 pounds, Thsr Wat lusai at Ua What Is day, what Is a year Of vain deiight and pleasure? Like to a dream it endless dies. And from us like a vapor files: And this Is all the fruit that we find. Which glory in worldly treasure. He that will hope for true delight. With virtue must be graced; Sweet folly yields a bitter taste, Which ever will appear at last; But if we still in virtue delight.

Our souls ore In heaven placed. Exchange AMONG THE NEWSPAPERS. It's a close race so far, Scofteld 63. La Follette 69. But It is the spurt on the home stretch that tells the story.

Madison Journal. a a a When the legislature of this state again meets the law respecting arbitration should be so amended as to make It imperative. Aa It stands now at is for all practical purposes a dead letter. When capital and labor disagree, arbitration should step In and adjust matters. Great loss of time and great destruction ot property would thereby be avoided.

The troubles experienced at Milwaukee, Superior and other places would never have occurred. Capital la too often heartless, and labor Is prone to run Into excesses. What good men can accomplish by destroying the property of their employers is a mystery to us. It Is on a par with the Dublin men, who having conceived a high degree of indignation against some great banker, passed a reso lutlon that they would burn his notes, whlchl they did with great assiduity, forgetting that by so doing they were destroying his debts. A good arbitration law, well administered, woujd be a great boon to all concerned, or as Pope says: "For forms of government let fools contest.

The law that's best administered Is best. Eau Claire Leader. a Don't get frightened. If Scofleld should be nominated we shall not be crushed by any "machine" or compelled to eat olea- margarine and filled cheese. If La Follette Is nominated the Bennett law will not be re-enacted and the "Little German boy" compelled to read only English.

Journal. oi a a According to the newspaper accounts of the actions of the Populist convention at St. Louis the scenes enacted on the floor must have been a sight for the gods, and pandemonium has lost its prestige at a fitting word' to describe turbulent and chaotic gath erings. And yet it should bear good fruit among the sensible voters. Picture to yourself this same outfit desecrating the halls of congress by their profane language and anarchistic utterances and then choose between them and the party that Is headet'l by that tried-and-true, deep-thlnkliig, calm, deliberate, broad-minded Christian Ameri can, Wm.

McKlnley. Marinette North Star. a a Ed Wall, he who hath thrown aside his honest money convictions and crawled upon the Populist band wagon should guard against a too free coinage of gab. The ex cuses for his change of front as given by him make poor reading for even his best of friends. Be frank and tell us, Mr.

Wall. that you thought the Populist wagon was loaded and you wanted to be on board. Be fore election we will lighten that load and hope to reduce It to an insignificant minor lty. Fond du Lac Commonwealth. a a Those one-time bitter rivals In the thread manufacture, the Coates, the Clarks and the Kerrs, have spooled their Issues and will hereafter work In trust-ful harmony.

The spooling was originally brought about by the somewhat unusual process ot matrimony a Coates married a Clark and a Kerr married a Coates. But conjugal con-l nections d'dn't quench competition; so "now the usual form of a "combine" has been eni tered Into with the object of freezing out middle men and enlarging profits by selling to retailers direct 6t. Paul Press. If Colonel Ingersoll had heard some of the Populist orators at St. Louis, he would admit the plausibility of the scriptural storyi of the killing of l.ono men with the Jaw bonei of an ass.

Stevens Point Journal. STATE CROPS. Lata Bains Very Heneaclal to Cora and Paatorea. Milwaukee, July 29. The weekly crop bulletin says: The weather conditions during the week have In the main been very favorable to all crops not yet matured.

Liberal and timely rains occurred In nearly all portions of the state on the 23d, and were extremely beneficial to young clover, which It was feared had been badly injured by the dry weather of the first of the montn. Again on the 25th rains were general over the stats snd heavy, especially In the southern portion. This rain was very beneficial to corn and pastures, as the temperature remained high both during the rain and after, and while the fall was heavy In some localities, It Is not thought any damage has been done to grain In the shock. Harvesting li about completed In the southern counties and some threshing has been done. In the middle and northern sections the work of harvesting is being pushed snd In some sections harvesters are run night and day In order to cut the grain before It Is taken by the army worms, which sre doing considerable damage in many of the state.

Corn continues to maks excellent progress and Is reported In very hardy condition. Oats are not as good as there was reason to ex pect earlier In the season, ss they have been damaged both by rust and Insects, but not anaaine yieia win still oe gooa. Buckwheat promises a fair crop. Potatoes are very good In most sections of the state, although there Is some complaint aa to the, quality. Fruit promises well, especially In the southern section.

Cranberries are reported as growing finely, with prospects of a good crop. Tobacco Is doing well. Reports of ravages of the army worm continue to comet In: over 75 per cent of correspondents reporting damage In from this, cause. They have appeared over a much) larger territory than was reported last week nd are working In nearly every county In the southern, middle and northeastern sections. They appear to be most numerous In' Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties In the east, Wallworth and parts of Racine county In the south, and Vernon, La Crose snd Jackson counties in the west.

In these counties the damage has been serious, but In other portions of the stnls It Is stated as comparatively alight, though the worms sre generally reported as Increasing In The greatest damage has been done to late oats, but corn Is being attatked In some localities, Taking the state' as a whole the percentage of damage Is not great, but In localities where they have appeared whole fields hove been ruined and Individual farmers have suffered serious loss. ROIIIIEI) THE UAMHLERS. Nuecessful Hold-1 nt a Pars Layoat at Newrftrt Ky. Clnclnantl, Ohio, July 29. A bold and sue ceseful robhery of a faro hank was reported by the Newport, police this morning.

At Jluber's garden, a summer resort on the electric Una bark of Newport, In a very quiet place, a furo game of considerable pro. portions hss been In progress nightly. Lste last n'ght, two men with revolver drawn suddenly entered the room and In spite prt. Ihe superior numbers of the player and prietors, they emptied the pockets of players and trays of the proprietors snd got sway, unharmed. No count was taken of ths stoics money, but It is known that $7f was taken from ths cash drswrr.

All the victims sre retlrent and It seems that this new Industry may become popular among highwaymen, Applelon will send a large delegation of (I. A. It, men to ths naitoual ncamymcnt at St, 1'aula J. E. Rask of Burnett, was fatally gored by a bull.

Miss Addle Potter and Loren A. Green were married at PTlnceton. Miss Mabel Van Cleft and Claude Jewell were married at Portage Tuesday. The potato acreage around Plainfleld is said to be larger this year than ever before. A stranger giving his name as Ernest Martin is under arrest at Marinette for stealing a bicycle.

Highwaymen have made several unsuccessful attempts to bold up lone pedestrians at Kacine lately. Over 100 De Pere excursionists were left at Marinette Monday, necessitating their paying their fares home on the railroad. Matt Llnquist was held up and robbed at Rhineiander and shot In the head for offering resistance. The robbers secured only K. Out of from 1,200 to 1,600 bicycles in Ap-pleton only 193 appear on the tax list The affair is so much ot a farce that It Is calling forth loud criticism.

Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska will speak for Republicanism and sound money at the Monona lake assembly at Madison on Friday. Ed Fennelly, the Ashland embezsler, has been pardoned from state prison by Gov. Upham. He had served two years of his three and one-half year sentence.

The wild berry season being over around Black River Falls, the Indians camped there are rapidly leaving for the Turkey river bottoms.where they will commence to dig gentian root. Noah Phelps, an old resident ot Monroe, was seriously if not fatally Injured by a fall from the porch of his residence. He was a member of the territorial legislature and Is a pioneer of the state. He is over ninety years old. The twelfth annual fair of the Seymour Fair and Driving Park ossoclation will be held September 10, 11 and 12.

Arrangements are being made to make this fair eclipse all others held by this association. Premiums of $10,000 and $1,000 In purses are-offered. There is a report In circulation in Bay View that owing) to the present unsettled condition of the Iron business the Illinois Steel company's mills are shortly to be closed down, and that they will, if closed, doubless remain idle until after the national election in November. Two more drownings are reported from Madison. Tuesday afternoon John Sprague, aged 18, of Dodgevtlle, went tn bathing from a boat and was seized with cramps, and drowned before hlB companions could do anything to save him.

The other case is Royal Roberts, aged 11, who went fishing snd tell In while no one was near. Carl Holter, a member of the German theater company playing at Green Bay, was sitting in, his room gt the hotel Monday, night when he heard a call for help. Following the sound he found a man clinging to a pile beneath the bridge over East river. He helped the man out of danger, but the fellow made off without giving his name. It was two years ago last Monday that Charles I.

Martin and his two companions started out from Marinette in a sailboat bound for Sturgeon Bay, and since which time they have not been seen nor heard of, says The Marinette Eagle. That they were drowned is the universal opinion but the fact that none of the bodies, nor the boat, was ever found creates a mystery that no one attempts to solve. The Fond du Lac common council has passed an antl-clgarette ordinance. The sale of cigarettes is to be prohibited unless a license of $200 is given. The smoking of cigarettes in a public building in the city of Fond du Lac Is a violation of the ordinance and punishable.

For each dealer not complying with the ordinance a' fine of not less than $1 and more than $10 shall be Imposed for each offense. Halford Erlckson, Wisconsin commissioner of the bureau of census, and industrial statistics, has completed a portion of his seventh biennial report. The completed section deals with "production and prices of farm products." It is based on data secured from thousands of circulars sent to tillers of the soil. The commisslonetl concludes "that our consuming power is! not Increasing- 'as fast as our productive power." Mrs. William Bruder and chlld.oged three years, were terribly burned Tuesday morning at their home in Wauwotosa.

The child cannot live and the mother will probably die. Mrs. Bruder attempted to build a fire in a coal stove and forgot to remove a can of kerosene which stood on top ot the stove. In lighting the Are the kerosene was ignited and exploded. Mrs.

Bruder's clothes and those of the child were set on fire, and she ran out to her Juishand. who was digging a well to give the alarm. ire ran into the cellar, but the child was frightfully burned before he arrived. Meanwhile Mrs. Bruder was burned almost as badly, and her clothing was nearly burned oft.

XEB BASRA ALL RIGHT. Bryan's Own State Will Surely Go Re publican. Washington, D. July 29. In correction of the popular belief that Bryan will sweep Nebraska, Judge W.

R. Kelly of Omaha, general solicitor of the Union Pacific, who is In the city, offers a few remarks. The Judge is one of the best politicians In Nebraska and thoroughly In touch with popular sentiment in the coun try tributary to Omaha on all sides. He says: "McKlnley snd Hobart will beat Bryan out of his boots In Nebraska. The Republicans have never been so thoroughly solidified or so enthusiastic aa they are this campaign, and whenever Nebraska Republicans are found In that frame of mind, they inevitably win.

When massed, tfcev rS this vear. the Republicans of I outnumber the combined vote of Democrats snd Populists, and. there isn't a break in the lines this year. There I a good deal of talk about the desertion of free silver Republicans, but when they are run down It Is found that such dessr tlon are more than offset by Democratic recruit. To show the Republican feeling In my section I will mention two cases; In Council Blufrs, Iowa, right across the river from Omaha, a Republican club was formed one night, ana within two hours 73) name were put on the or within 200 of the highest Republlcsn vote ever cast In the -town.

A night or two afterward a club was formed In the town of York, and out of the 4.V) Republican vote of the place SiO enrolled themselves the first hour. If you want 'pulse warmers' just think of these two instance. If they do not show an aroused public sentiment and strong party enthusiasm I am an Ignoramus In politics." FOUR MORE DEATHS. t.stsr Reports of ths Diaaatrao Storm la Wstern IVnniylvnnin. Pittsburg, July 20.

Tale of death and devastation from the awful storm which swept over western Pennsylvanls, Monday night, oontlnus to pour In, Four more drowning are reported and another victim of ths Sugar Orovt accident is not expected to survive the day. This will make the death list fifteen, Including the seven drowned st Cecil, Ths latest victim) were: John Whnlrn, aged twelve years, drowned near Wood's run; Mlno Calfo, an eiirhteen-year-oM Italian girl, drowned In Pine creek, near WUdwood; an unknown miner reported drowned In Guffey' Hol low, near Shanrrs, hit unknown Ital ian reported drowned at Bmithton, Pa. Goe Miller, crushed by falling tree at Sugar drove camp, still lives, but physician rs-port that hs cannot recover. The damage to property was heavy In Washington and Fayotts counties asd will probably reach a million dollars. Mas Knt Hsalgnrtl.

Jlsltlmore, July President Hoffman of tha rVaboard Air line said todsyC "Th rumor that Mr, Ht. John hss resigned as vice president slid genernl manager of this company 1 mauuuu laisvuoou, offered to him, if the Democrats have their way. Tou wouldn't suppose that he want ed any more if you took a look through the treasury building. One huge box of iron lattice work, 100 feet long, sixty feet wide and fourteen feet high, in the basement, is chockfull of cartwheel dollars. They ars in bags of $1,000 each, which ars packed in pine wood cases to keep out the damp.

There ore 93,000,000 dollars in that box. That whole mass weighs about 3,000 tons. Ths carts required for carrying the money would form a procession stretching mora than twenty miles. How it would make the Populists' mouths water to look on at such a parade! But this Is by no means the whole of the stock1 of silver dollars kept on hand In Washing ton. In other vaults are 68,000.000 more.

And if these sre not enough you can find 227,000,000 additional cartwheels In various mints and sub-treasuries, mostly In Phila delphia, New York and San Francisco. When It Is considered that only about 000,000 silver dollars altogether are in clr-cluation at present, It will be apparent that, the government is In no danger of running short of them. For years past, while ths government has been holding on to this enormous stock of the white metal, ths market value of It has been going steadily down, down, down. If you will drop in at the mint in Phil adelphia you will have a chance to look at some more silver that belongs to the governmentnot coined dollars, but bullion. There is something very Impressive to ths eye about this immense accumulation of wealth in the crude.

You see It stacked up' here and there In the shape ot bricks. If you had permission to take what you couldi carry, you would not be able to get away with more than about $1,000 worth; silver 1st so cheap now. The Quaker City mint at present holds $107,000,000 worth ot these Ingotscoining value. They take up a lot ot room; 1,000,000 ounces of silver brick oc cupy the space ot 120 cubic feet The great advantage of silver as money from the point of view of the Democratic platform, is that It Is cheap. There Is every prospect that It will become much cheaper.

The supply in sight is pactically unlimited. Look at the Rocky mountains; they are largely) made of silver. The entire. mountain chain that forms the backbone of the continent, from Alaska to Cape Horn, Is full of the white metal. Thus it Is not surprising to find that the Americas pro duce nearly the whole of the silver supply of the world.

In 1895 the mines of the United States yielded 58,000,000 ounces of silver. Fifty-eight million ounces. That seems good deal, but it does not present a very, clear notion of quantity to the mind. It would make a solid square twenty-two feetf in diameter. Such a ball might be rolled) down Broadway, New York, Just avoiding interference with the pedestrians on the sidewalks.

Its diameter be about equal to the width of the street from curb) to curb. Either Cornelius Vanderbllt or W. K. Vanderbllt could purchase it outright without much Inconvenience, but It is doubtful If they would consider It a desirable Investment. Mexico furnishes material for a ball nearly as big every year.

A sphere about fifteen feet In diameter would represent the production of Bolivia, through, which country the silver ridge of the Antic runs. Few people know that Bolivia is third, on the list ot silver producing nations. The entire silver production of the globtt In 1S9S would be represented by a sphere thirty-five feet in diameter, containing ounces of the white metal. It Is a very remarkable fact that the total stock of gold: in the world Is Just about equal in value to the entire silver stock each Is approximately stated at $4,000,000,000. The largest stock of silver is owned by India estimated at $500,000,000.

But accurate figures with regard to that country ars very heard to get, because of the propensity of the natives for hoarding. They either hide or turn into orns ments every bit of precious metal, whether silver or gold, they obtain. Much of It Is burled and lost China comes after India, with; a stock of $750,000,000 worth of silver, and th United States next, with $625,000,000. During 1S95 we exported $53,000,000 worth of silver. It goes out of the country ss merchandise, and is treated just If It were so much Iron or wheat.

All of It is handled hy a few brokers In New York, who sdvance money to the refiners to enable, them to pay for the ore that comes from the mines. The refiners forward ths stuff to New York In the shape of bricks of about 1,100 ounces esch, marked with the fineness. The brokers ship the Ingots to Liverpool, whence they are sent by rail to London. London Is the diver market of the world, and there they ars dealt in like any other commercial commodity, being finally sold and shipped to India, Egypt, Brazil and other part of the world. The American Ingots go by the name of "cake silver." Considerable quantities of them go to China, where they are cut Into pieces for a sort of currency that goes by weight The piece ars called Many new Industrial use of silver havs been found within recent years, thanks to ths Increasing cheapness of the metal.

Not to very long ago only rich people were able) to afford a table service of tolid silver, but now the luxury Is within the reach of tho householder of very moderate mean. It It a common thing for jewelers to advertise tpoons of sterling silver for their weight In silver dollars. There Is good reason to believe that before long the metal will much cheaper than at present SUE RODE A WAV. A Woman scorcher Hans Down and atally Injuria a) thlxsgo Mail. Chicago, 111., July 2.

An unknown woman riding a bicycle ran over Wm. Kllnk, an aged butcher last night and Injured him so severely that he died from the effect today. The woman was "scorching" snd the old butcher, In attempting to get out of her way snd fell. A hs fell, ons of the hnndktiars ttrii'k him In th sin dtitnen, rupturing one of hi Intestines. The, woman mounted her wheel before It could be ascertained who she was snd rosd away, leaving ths dying man lying on ths street.

OOIXU TO CUBA. Toansj Maesa Will liars a Chanss to Arsngs III. rather Itentri. New York, July 29. Among Ihe passenger thst arrived at this port last night by ths steamer Caracas from La Otxiyra, was) ths son of Joss Macro, who was killed In Cuba recently.

The young man, It I said, held the post of chief or police In Port Llmon, Costa Rica, snd Is, together with ten other young Cubans, on his way to the Island to Join the rebel army, lit learned of ht father' death on landing. Fire destroyed nearly an snllr btifrlnesai block at Hurley Tuesilsy, causing loss of) several thousand dollars, Ths principal loser are O. MrMeehsn, podofflc, feeii wore and warehouse, and Jams Brown, (roctry an A td tiers, known, horses were slaughtered tor their hides in many parts of ths country. With this large Increase in production of oats, and the great decrease in the number of horses used, is It at all strange that oats dropped from an average price of 43 cents a bushel In 1870, and 62 cents In 1874, to 19 cents in 1895? Here are shown some direct and tangible causes for the decrease of the price ot oats Can any farmer say that ths price ot oats has so declined simply and solely because the price of silver declined? The price of sliver declined tor causes as natural and inevitable ss those which brought down the price of oats. If causes were sought for the decline of prices In other farm products equally reasonable and natural reasons could be found.

But so far as silver is concerned, it is only a product of the mines, governed by the same commercial laws that govern- the products of the farm. And yet some farmers seem to think; that by bending their efforts to advance the price of anoFher man's product they will advance their own, when as a matter of fact. If advance the price of another man's product artificially It will, in fact, lower the relative price of their own, for It will enable the producer of the other product to command more of their own product for the same amount of labor. It Is only when natural laws serve to give to one product a larger relative Increase of price than to some other product that ons product can find any advantage over anoth er product And It is the great and neces-, sary and eternal law of trade that every man's prime and business Interest is to keep the relative price of his own product at the highest possible notch, and the relative price) of every other man'a product at the lowest possible notch. It Is simply this endless and everlasting endeavor that keeps the would moving and makes business a business.

The contest In Janesvllle resulted In the election, of La Follette delegates in every ward tn the city, which, Is now claimed, will give La Follette the delegates from all of the three assembly districts In that coun ty, twenty-three delegates In a'X The Northwestern is In receipt of copy of The Grayson Eagle, published at Leitch- fleld, which floats the names ot Mc- Kinley and Hobart at Its masthead. POLITICAL NOTES. Black River Falls elected delegates to the county convention Instructed, for LaFoliette. a a H. Q.

Kress of Manitowoc has come out as a candidate for the congressional nomi nation and claims that the delegation from that county Is for him. a a A second Republican convention has been called In Wood county and two delegations will go from that county, making a contest In the state convention. a a a At ths Calumet county convention resolu tions were passed regretting Congressman S. A. Cook's refusal of a renomlnation, thank ing him for securing the passage of the filled cheese bill and for getting an appropriation, for a harbor on the east shore of Lake Win nebago.

sea Of the county and assembly convention held on Tuesday, Oconto, Florence and Price) counties elected flcofteld delegates. Sauk county elected La Follette delegates. Bay-field county elected three delegates for Follette, two for Bcofleid and one for Bradford. Calumet county instructed its delegates for Baensch, with Boone Id for second, choice. congressional delegation la said, to be two for Davidron and one for Kerwin of Neenah.

Iowa county instructed Its delegates for La Follette. Columbia county is for La Follette. NOTES BY THE FUNNY MEN. The Thin One: "My heart Is still unten anted." The Plump One: "Why don't you advertise, 'Flat for "Cincinnati Enquirer. A.

Wheeler: "Doesn't he look well?" T. Ires (in disgust): "Yes; he', one of those cranks who won't ride a bicycle." Puck. "Where are you going to take your family this summer. "To Coney Island." "What: For the summer?" "No; for a day." Harper's Batar. "Will you have sugar on.

the banana, dearie?" aked mama, aa she sliced the fruit. "No," replied Hurling, sged 3. "They sweet. I 'pose the man put In sugar when he' rooked "em." Jud.e. Jones "Thischlcken'slt yesrs old." Smith "How ran you tell ths age of a chicken?" Jones: "Hy the teeth." Smith: "By the teeth? Chickens don't have any teeth." Jones: "No; but I have." Judxc "Why did Mrs Hawkins discharge her French rrairt?" "incivility." "Whit?" Why, she struck me as the acme of civility," "Me, too; but I believe she couldn't understand Mrs, Hawkins' French," 'Harper's Bazar, "That Isn't an alto-she's a high soprano, snd her mime la Jones." "Hum!" said the doctor.

"Why? I)d you lik hir voice?" "Can't say much (or the voice, but she has one of the fiwat hronchltiscs that I tvef encountered:" Youth's Companion, Customer: "Walter, what a very disagree, elite Oflort there Is!" Wsitert "Yes. sir. It's them naw-Utd heggs; they're worse thai rnop-'una; the shnp-heggs ars so old that they've only got a feeble fainty sort o' smell but them new-lntd 'una are in their prime, snd smell awful strong!" Fun, A certain eminent phyeleisn went to a concert at his wife's earnest request, though he has no knowledge of or Interest In mm. He was rather listless until one of the singers, lady, rue and began tn ping for the first time. Then he brightened up.

"Who IS thai altvo?" hes'ked, "Alto!" exclaimed hie wife, Ths saw mills of the Northwestern t.titti-her company at Kail Clslre, Postervllle( snd Htanley will close down Friday on account of the dullness In huslness. Other mills ars saifiettlia to Us Uie law loon, Polish in the School. vary queer and remarkable contest is Dow going- on In Milwaukee which Is much tending towards abridging the personal right, of parents to Bend their children to uch school they please and educate them aa they see fit. In fact there Is a great Btetchirur, of a principle that was dis tinctly settled by a large vote of the people. ever a) years ago, and It Is to be feared that In the seat of the stretchers there may yet, be a complete fracture.1 Certain Polish residents of Milwaukee asked the board of education to have the Polish language taught In ths publlo schools.

With much apprehension that the Italians might come in with a similar request that the Italian language be taught In the public schools, and the French residents that French be taught, and the Norwegians that Scandi navian be one of the tongues taught In ths pubtlo schools, the board finally offered to put the Polish language Into one school hi Polish section of the city as an experiment, provided 260 children of Polish parents were In attendance at that school. Ths endeavor of the Polish Educational association now Is to drum up 260 Polish children for that school. Every recourse of law and suasion Is being brought to bear on the Polish population to force them to send their children to this particular school In order to swell the number to that point which will ensure the teaching of the Polish language In the school. The truancy law has been taken advantage ot and this Polish association stands back of the truancy officer, who Is sending out official notification to all Polish residents that they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the compulsory education law If they do not send their children to school. Indeed, the compulsory education law never had such a boom In its life as It Is getting In Milwaukee today, all on account of the strife to get the Polish language Into the public schools.

The English language couldn't begin to scare up so great an anxiety for the rigid enforcement of the compulsory education law, And there Is no mall contention between ths parochial school advocates and those who are trying to secure Polish pupils for this publlo school, In order to Insure a teacher of Polish. The latter are trying to get pupils out ot the parochial schools and Into this public school In ths Fourteenth ward. Farent-. al rights ars said to be very seriously threatened by campaign, not In the interests ot the English language In the parochial schools, be It remembered, but in behalf of ths Polish language In the public schools. It is to be hoped that ths contention will not go so far as to revive any ot ths unpleasant memories connected with ths school question or to stultify ths verdict of tha people which was supposed (0 have settled fop all time ths principle of parental rights.

The Northwestern devotes considerable pace todajt to printing In full the excelltnt addresses delivered last Saturday before ths Republican county convention. In this presentation of the Issues of ths present campaign the leading questions now agitating the publlo mind are discussed from various point of view, with such clearness and argumentative force as to make the ddresaoa of extraordinary Interest to ail those who ars earnestly and conscientiously tudylng ths somewhat complex questions of the day. They should be read by every voter, and this Issue of The Northwestern should be preserved by every reader who has not the time and opportunity to read them Immediately for careful perusal at mors convenient leisure. This Is a good number for all sound money men to send to their friends who may be wavering or doubtful on the questions of sound money nd protection. The Bt.

Taul Pioneer-Press makes this very senaihle observation: 'The campaign committees who are resorting to an abuse of ths franking privilege to send out political documents are making a mistake. They may save some postage, but not enough to compensate for the Ignominy of chesting the government Let them have the best speeches, printed In the newspapers, and expend the money the pamphlets would cost In paying for the circulation of larger editions. So will they reach a larger number or readers, and encourage the edit or at the Sams time," The Populists Bow want Bewail ta with. draw from ths Democratic ticket and hnvt) Tom Watson put In his place, In the In- terestt of harmony between the two tickets. This Is much like The Milwaukee Journal's suggestion that the Republicans nominate Oen.

Bragg In order to support a ound money candidate. The Milwaukee Record. In a compliment ry remark about Rubles A. Cole, says Ths Wisconsin sliver party mads no mts take when II sent him to ths national rnn Vehtlon." Ths Convention, however, seems to have thought differently, for It unseated1 Mr. Cols end gave his seat to his contest nt.

Regarding ths German and the silver tjjnestlon, The Chicago Tim. Herald Stiyt 'There are 1.0D7 papers In the 1'nlted Bute In the Herman language. Of this number there art nly forty-seven not advocating tnjlnteiiance of the existlhg gold standard, matter what thslr pang.