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mm Second VOL. NO. 178. CHICAG SATUEDAT MQIINING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1897. SIXTEEN" PAGES.

PAGES 9 TO 16. GRAHAR1ESAREEMPTY Every Nation In Europe Save. Russia Must Buy Wheat. SHORTAGE IS VAST America Must Be One of the Chief Sources of Supply. ROBT.

P. PORTER'S LETTER He Comments on Present Economic Conditions Abroad. A Gallic Howl Over a Provision In the DingSey Tariff Latest Idea In French Funerals. LONDON. England, Aug.

27. Special Correspondence. The subject which li uppermost in the minds of the people and which affords material for editorial in the press of England and the continent Is the wheat situation. Every country in Europe, with the solitary exception of Russia, will want to import wheat this year. England herself will probably require 134,000,000 bushels; France, 80,000.000 bushels; Italy, 22.000,000 bushels, and Germany, Belgium, and Holland.

bushels. Austria-Hungary, contrary to custom, will need about 8.000,000 bushels to satisfy her demands. Iudeed. it is calculated that the European countries, together with China, the Brazils, and the West Indies, will require an import of 456.0CC.0O0 bushels, a quantity unprecedented In the history of the wheat tnde. England having practically no stocks of her own, will have to meet the necessities of her by buying.

But where? America. Rucla. and Canada are the chk-f sources of supply. Something like 178.000,000 bushels may be exported from the United States, while Russia which has a fair reserve of old wheat may be In a position to supply bushels; Canada. 24,000,000 bushels: Roumania.

Bulgaria, and Turkey, 40.000,000 bushels. This represents a total of bushels, leaving a deficiency for the whole world of from 96.000,000 to 104,000,000 bushels. What supplies Argentina and Australasia can furnish will be unknown until Christmas, but It must be remembered that the crop in the South American republic have been devastated by locusts for the last two years, while Australasia has little to spare, wing to the numericalgrowth of her people. London Itself requires every week 660,000 bushels of foreign wheat. Independently of flour, to meet the needs of the inhabitants, tKit It Is an indisputable fact that during the last month not one half the normal quan tiiy has reached the week be sunDlv fell so low as 88.000 bushels, and the week before It was not more than bushels.

Millers, therefore, are out of stock, and decline to buy because of the rise. Iu truth, not only millers, but bakers and factors as well, are, like Mr. Micawber, wait ing for "something to turn up." English farmers may be tempted to part with their new-grown wheat, but they cannot be de-vended upon, experts declare, either for quan tity or quality, and this year's crop will not he available for another month. Not one-tenth of the London bread is made English flour. Flour has already risen about $1.68 per sack, and a further advance of from 72 cents to S1.20 la confidently predicted.

Both the port stocks of wheat and the quantities afloat In the United Kingdom are the smallest known for many years, the whole scarcely exceeding 16,000,000, as against (6,056,000 bushels last autumn, when the meager supplies available created any amount excitement among speculators in Mark Lane. The rise of flour In the metropolis will unquestionably produce a corresponding Increase in the price of bread. The poor will doubtless feel the pinch during the coming winter. The penny roll will still be penny roll, and If it stould be a wee bit smaller the difference will be Inappreciable to the consumer, who ray be consoled by the reflection that what Ike is deprived of may mean all the difference between prosperity and adversity to the English agriculturist. England may learn a lesson that will be useful, namely: that the cheap loaf Is not always the best loaf, though that was once the old Cobden club argument.

The cheap loaf becomes a dear loaf when you have not the money to buy It, and this lesson we have recently learned at home. The cheap coat means a cheap man to make It, while the cheap loaf means penury for our agriculturists. Good prices mean good times, for when prices are highest then the people are most prosperous. When In England In 1894 I recall a conversation with Rt. Hon.

Joseph Chamberlain, la which he said to me that the British government had already done much for the Irish farmer, and it was now time something was done for the English farmer, who was In most deplorable condition. Mr. Chamber-. Iain's cry, "Let us do something for the Eog- lish farmer," helped the Conservative party, but nothing has been done by the government for the English farmer, beyond the report of the royal commission, the substance of which I have already given the readers of The Inter Ocean. Today the British farmer, owing to the Improved price of wheat, is feeling happier than he was Meantime, the Irish land commissioners are evidently doing something for our Irish brethren across the channel, as the report covering April, 189S.

to March SI, 1897, Issued today, shows. During that time offers to the amount of $155,050 for the purchase of nine estates were accepted by the commissioners, covering 126 holdings. The total number of applications received under the purchase of land acts has been 29,622 for $57,235,475. 1 During the year 129 applications for $157,810 were provisionally, sanctioned, making the total sanctioned up to March SI, 1897, 25,805 for $49,935,140. Of this total amount the cotn-' xnltsioners had Issued 25,343 loans to the amount of $49,924,794, in respect of sales for $50,766,285, the amount Issued during the period Just closed being $168,575 for 140 loans; 477 applications were received from evicted tenants, under the act of 1896, requesting the commissioners to act as mediators, with a lew to the reinstatement of the tenant to the 'holding, or with a viewto the tenant pur-chasing the same.

Ninety-seven of such applications were refused as not coming within the provisions of the section. Six applications were withdrawn; objections were re- ceived from the' landlords to 321, and fifty-' three cases were pending. The ho wl which the French people axe making about the $100 clothing limitation Is amusing. M. Henri Boucher, the French Minister of Commerce, styles the measure "a veritable declaration of economic war.

He considers the clause "retrograde and says it means a loss to the French dressmaking houses of 55,000,000 francs, and Intimates the intention of his government to cancel the reciprocity arrangement by which France extended privileges to American produce In consideration of the reduced schedules of the Wilson bill. It does not seem to occur to M. Boucher nor to the Journals which publish this sort of stuff that the 55,000,000 franca which the French dressmaker and tailor lose, the American dressmaker and tailor will gain, and that Is Just the object of the law. Speaking of the French people reminds me that I read in a French paper the other day an extraordinary account of a man sending out Invitations to his own funeral. Polnat," so ran the formula on the cards left behind Mm by this considerate defunct for distribution among his friends, "requests you, if you have retained a pleasing reminiscence of bim, to be so kind as to accompany him on his last Journey.

He will leave his abode. No. 11 Rue de Belunoe, on Aug. 16. 1897, to proceed direct to the cemetery of Pere Ln- chatse.

In begging you to accept his post humous acknowledgments, M. Jean Polnar would be grateful if you would keep a corner In your memory for him." The idea Is an excellent one. Invitations to attend funerals of deceased persons have long presented difficulties to the surviving relatives charged with the delicate duty of selecting the proper recipients of the mourn ful compliment. We shall owe It to the tact and urbanity of the French character If these embarrassments should be hereafter re moved. Nothing more would be needful for their removal than that those who are on the eve of quitting this mortal scene should have the foresight and fortitude to follow the ex ample which has Just been set them by Jean Polnat, and Issue the Invitations themselves.

Queer personals one sometimes sees in the London papers. Here is one that caught my eye in today's Times Personal, Etc. C. Your room cleaned and papered as you wished. We entreat you to come back.

You left oa a birthday. One of us will meet you anywhere you choose. Mother. Comment is unnecessary, for these few lines seem to contain a pathetic story of waywardness and parental love. On board the steamer, or soon after I landed at Plymouth, I was moved to say a few words about the science of tipping.

It is one of the most difficult problems here in Europe for Americans who want to do what is right to know Just what to give. I noted the other day this bit of advice for continental Europe Fee the porter at continental hotels. He will be useful. Give one of your dining- room waiters something, but give only oite. Never mind the head waiter's sardonlo frown.

Baggage porter expects a small fee when you so away. The trouble vtlth Americans Is they are apt to give too much to each one, and hence tipping becomes burdensome. Today's Truth touches on this matter In rather clever doggerel. It is headed: THE TRUTH ABOUT TIPPIXO. At a loss for more readable matter, a paper now nightly equips A varying space in IU columns with letters relating In which lta aggrieved correspondents complain in an outspoken way Of the sums which, as guests or as tourists, they And It expedient to pay.

They've to tip on all bands, they assure as; the waiter, the porter, the groom. The footman, the butler, the keeper, alike on their favor presume; Till, be It at hostels or mansions, each victim successively quails At the way that he has had to distribute the up-to-date version of vails. We are told how extortionate valets greet "stiver" with withering looks. Kcw visitors, too, are expected to th' lk of their hostesses' cooks; How coachmen despise and neglect us if "Up-less" we leave them, we're told. And how keepers, expectant of "paper," are down on the guests who give gold.

ROBERT P. PORTER. PREPARES FOR OMAHA FAIR. Illinois Coaimisaloa Oraraalsrs and Appoints Committees. The commission recently appointed by Governor Tanner to represent the state In the exposition at Omaha next year held lta first meeting at the Great Northern hotel Thursday.

The commission is appointed under an act passed by the Legislature last winter appro priating $45,000 for the erection of an Illinois building at the exposition, and to encourage the representation of the state's industrial, mechanical, and agricultural progress. The commission's official designation la "The Illi nois Trans-Mississippi and International Commission." The following members were present at the meeting: John M. Smyth. William H. Harper.

L. O. Goddard, E. 8. Conway, James P.

Wbedon, Charles A. Mallorr. Chicago: Clark E. Carr. Galesburg; Oscar T.

Traberne, Rock ford: Lewis II. Miner, spnngueio; William A. tsteao, Ottawa; Lafayotte Funk, Bloomlnprton: James A. Black, Carthage; Rudolph Smith, Flora; Charles O. William, Hoopeston Keeler, Dixon; Martin Kingman, Peoria.

first session was held at 2 o'clock and organized by electing E. S. Conway chairman and Lewis H. Miner secretary. After a short discussion it was decided that the commission should be permanently or ganized, and a committee, consisting of Messrs.

Goddard, Carr, Whedon, Keeler, and Harper, was appointed to prepare rules and report a permanent organization. At last evening's session the following officers were decided upon President Colonel Clark E. Carr, Galesburg. Vice Presidents iE. S.

Conway, Chicago, first; Ferdinand W. Peck. Chicago, second; George Wall, imquoin, third. i Treasurer Lewis H. Miner, Springfield.

Executive Committee William H. Harper. Chicago; Martin Kingman, Peoria; Lafayetta Furk. Bloomlngton; C. H.

Keeler, Dixon; James P. Whedon. Chicago; John M. Smyth, Chicago; Charles C. Williams, Hoopeston.

Committee oa Transportation B. S. Conway, L. O. Goddard.

Charles A. Mallory, W. A. Stead. Committee on Exhibits and Manufactures-John M.

Smyth, E. C. Craig. George Wall, Ferdinand W. Peck.

W. P. Brinton. Committee on Live Stock and Agriculture Lafayette Funk, James A. Black, 11.

Maliory. Committee on Buildings and Grounds me P. WheSon, Martin Kingman, Oscar P. Tra-herne, Rudolph Smith. Charles C.

Williams. Committee on Publicity and Promotion Willi! H. Harper, Lewis H. Miner, C. H.

Keeler. After the election of officers several business matters came before the meeting. It was decided to open and maintain an office in Chicago, and a committee will select the location today. A branch will also be established at Omaha. The executive committee was instructed to secure estimates and plans from architects for an Illinois building on the exposition grounds to cost $20,000.

SMITH COLLEGE Reservations ara now being made in the special ears to lesve here on the "Boston Special" (10:30 a. m. train) of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway, and provided for the accommodation of students to Smith; dates, Monday. Sept. 30, and Tuesday.

Sept. 21. Those who find It more convenient to take the Limited (5:30 p. may do so without payment of extra fare. Call at or address city office.

No, ISO Clark street, or Wiiber, A. Q. P. CHARTS OF THE LAKES Good "Work Is Being Done by the Liocil Hydrographio Office. AIDS TO LAKE NAVIGATION seamen Are Kpt Posted on Foes, Shoals, and Storms.

Lteateaaat nipley la Lesvlsg 4 Will Be Seeeeeded by Lleateaaat Cook of the Parltaa. Lieutenant Charles S. Ripley, who has been In charge of the local branch of the hydro- graphic office In the Masonic temple for the last two years, has been detached and today Is ordered to report for duty on board the United States ship Marblehead, at New York His two years' shore duty Is up, and he will (Who will have temporary chanre of the local a ui va at fauv viubs, now spend three years on the water. It is not yet decided whether the Marblehead shall go to South America or to Europe. She may go to Cuba.

Lieutenant Simon Cook has been detached from the United States ship Puritan, and will assume charge of the office Oct. 23. Mean while W. J. Wilson, the assistant, is in charge.

This office Is now three years old. It was established as a kind of experiment at the end of the World's Fair, under the supervision of Lieutenant George P. Blow. At first it was rather hard to get the captains and the other marine men to co-operate with it; but the work performed by the office grad ually Increased, and Its value became more apparent; so tbst by the time Mr. Blow was transferred another office had been started in Cleveland.

And more still, the Lake Carriers' association and others interested in the lake traffic have had money ap propriated by Congrees. so that three more stations will be established next month at Duluth. Sault Ste. Marie, and Buffalo. This will give one office for each lake.

Work of the Offices. The object of these offices is to look out for the Interests of the lake mariners, 1b making and correcting charts, publishing sailing directions, Issuiiig monthly notices of all changes In lights, buoys, shoals, and derelicts, etc. These are sent free to every captain and vessel -owner, whether asked for or not, the office keeping a regular mailing list. The office also Issues special charts, which are sold at a nominal figure, that only pays for the paper and printing. The latest one.

issued a few weeks ago. is a pilot chart of the great lakes, which contains a new and val uable feature in the graphic method of showing the proportion of days and the proportion of hours In which fog occurs at each of the- principal light stations on the lakes, computed from the records of the last six years. The occurrence and duration of fog are also given figures. In another table, and from them the probability of fog at any given station for any month during the season of navigation may be ascertained. On the back of the chart the table of canals and dry docks has been revised to date, and a complete table of distances enables the navigator to tell the number of miles between any two porta.

The rules of the road are also orlnted there. Shows Charts mt the Cloads. Another chart. Issued not so Terr long ago. shows everything from the placid cirrus to the threatening nimbus, with all kinds of halfway between clouds, such as fracto-nlm- bus and stato-cumulus.

The casual observer might think these plates chromos, such as enliven the homes of the humble, but they took three years In the preparing, and were submitted to all the admiralties and to every well-known meteorologist la the world, before being finally Issued. The office now gets monthly reports from many captains as to the condition of the foas and of the sea, the changes in shoals and la derelicts, for which It furnishes regularly pre pared blanks. Besides the marines, the gen eral public comes frequently to invoke the neip of the omce in settling knotty questions. For Instance, some one called the ether day to inquire li there was a moon on th night of the Luetgert murder. there are people who want to know at what time the moon, rose or th sua set on some day fifteen or twenty years ago.

An interesting offshoot of the office is a night nautical school established by Mr. Wilson last year at the rooms of th naval militia, on Michigan avenue. 7 Sixty-five pupils attended last year, thirty of them captains ana tne rest yachtsmen, naval militiamen, etc. Its practical value has become so apparent that this year George L. McCurdy, the Insurance man, has offered eight prises, to be given to captains and mates, in thst course which Includes the study of variation and deviation of the compass.

Ships Become Magactlifd. When a ship Is being built the steel plates may not be at all magnetic, but, as they are put in place ana hammered, they become magnetized. If the ship Is lying north and south, she will become a huge needle, whose bow would always point to the north, if free to turn. If she Is lying east and west, the starboard and port sides will be positive and negative poiee. ana ene would always tend to point east and west if left free on a placid All this, of course, affects the compass on the ship, and not only that, but the soft lroa in the ship affects It differently at every degree, of latitude.

This Is called the "deviation" of th compass, and is. in addition, affected by lta cargo, or by th moving of a piece of iron near the compass. The "variation." or tne compass Is the dif ference between the true north and the magnetic north, which is different in different localities. Thus, it will be seen that your can- tain who wishes to steer by compass must know how to allow for the eccentricities of his compass if he does not to go miles out of his course. Wheat his cargo, is all oa board and is out in the lake he can, by swinging ship, that is, turning around while taking observations, by the help of the tun and certain fixed objects oa shore, marked on his chart, and by the help of "Azimuth" tables, find out in half an hour Just what allowances he will have to make, and It is this sort of thing that he learns at Mr.

Wilson's School of He need not be a mathematician, so he fctrt good, sommoa If sense, for the matbemat'ea of the thing have already been carefully Vjvked out by experts and the results published la CHANGES AT ARM a lBADqCARTEBS. Clael Mike Saerleem Is Ceatl a to Chicago. Army officials at headquarters In the Pullman building did sot receive yesterday the long-expected order of the Secretary of War making promotions ia the Adjutant General's office, but were none th less pleased at the report of Its promulgation. Colonel Corbln, who was at one time stationed la Chicago, goes 'to New York. Colonel Barber ia transferred from.

Chicago to New York, which agaia places him under General Merrltt, and Ojonel Mike Sheridan, who was General Brooke- Adjutant General at Omaha and 8t Paul, comes to Chicago to serve in like capacity, Colonel Barber Is now on a leave of absence In the West, and will report for duty la New York at the close of his leave. GOSSIP OF THE HOTELS. Messeager Boy Flado a Geatleaaaa with ast meertIa Address. Messenger boys probably do as much to enliven the Uvea of thos people who travel from city to city, and live In hotels, as any one class of beings. ThelrWass Is unique and distinctive.

An incident at the AtJltorlum annex yesterday created much amusement for those guests who happened to be la the vicinity of the counter, and th more so aa it waa perfectly natural and characteristic of the messenger-boy type. t. A boy carrying two telegrams and a murky frown ambled up to Paul Gores with an air of determination. "Robert Yoakum stopping here?" he demanded. "Noape.

not the examination of the register called forth. "Dey told me at de office dat I wui to bring um here." "Don't you know who Bobby Yoakum is 7" questioned Paul. "No. Do youse? Whe t'ell Is hT" "Why, Bobby Yoakum ia the fellow Billy Barlow carried across Kiagara Falls on a tight rop in 1872." "Huh! I wiah fell de guy had a drooped Im off. I've had more trouble deli verln' doae telegrams -dan all de blamed messages I had last week," and he slowly shuffled toward the aoor.

--i Southern people fleeing from the approach oi yellow lever are reaching Chicago la steady stream. The following registered at the leading hotels yesterday: Mrs. M. Sbeehsn. Miss K.

Sheehan. Mrs. J. Hennessy, Miss Maggie Henry. Miss M.

E. Long. Mr. J. A.

Hennesay, VIcksburg. ttanfleii Dugue, William Woester, New Or leans, at the Victoria. J. M. Huger, New Orleans, at the Great rnortnern.

George C. Samuel, New Orleans, at the Palmer. L. J. Bradley.

W. D. Bradley. New Orleans; u. f.

urs, ew uneans, at the Leland. J. J. Powers, F. A.

Schmitt, James Gal lfgber, VIcksburg. at the Auditorium. Among the leading arrivals at the hotels yesterday were: C. E. Downey.

Colorado Springs: C. A. PUlsbury. Minneapolis: B. Lynn.

Sherman. Texas; Baron Blschofftcheuaeu. Vienna, at tne Dr. F. A.

Boerlcke, Philadelphia, at tha Leland. D. Carson. Pierre, 8. at the Palmer.

Jamea P. Parry, Washington, D. Ci L. W. Collier, Atlanta.

N. and R. Good boy. dare, Ireland, at the Great Northern. L.

M. MarUn, Dea Moines, Iowa, at the Wellington. J. Huffman. Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs.

S. H. Steele, David City. 8. O.

Springer, i-eona. at tne snerman Mouse. M. R. Bald, Philadelphia: E.

Ruly. St Louis, at the Tremont house. SIX MEET SUDDEN DEATH. Two Freight Tralaa a Wlaeoaala Cea trail Collide Fear Hart. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Sept.

17. A disastrous wreck occurred oa th Wisconsin Central railroad six miles west of this city at 4 o'clock this morning, resulting la the death of six people and the serious Injury of four others. Two freight trains. through a mistake in orders, while going at a high rate of speed. met on a curve, and.

not even giving tbeenal neers and firemen time to Jump, came together wita a terrible force. The dead arc ENGINEER WARREN 4 ENGINEER SMITH. FIREMAN SMILEY. LESTER RYAN. OEOROH 8CHAFFER.

AN UNKNOWN MAN; riding between cars. It Is thought others are burled ia the wreck. Two brakemen were taken from the wreck about o'clock and are seriously injured. Two passengers in the caboose are slightly In jured. The names of the latter could not be learned, but it waa reported, this morning that cney were stocamen rrom Minneapolis at tending the fair in this city.

Engineers War ren and Smith and Fireman Smiley, all killed. were residents of this cltyi It Is not known where th blame lies, but It is rumored that both trains were given the right of way. Engineer Warren's remains were the first taken out; one leg was completely severed from the body and there was a bad cut on the head. The remains of Engineer Smith were terribly mangled, as were also those of Fireman Smiley. Th west-bound train suffered the most, as the other waa coming down grade at a high rate.

West-bound train No.21.ln charge of Charles iWarren, conductor, was seven hours late and had orders to pass train No. 24 at the siding. No. 24 had the right of way, but No. 21 failed to make th siding by about one minute.

It had slowed up and was running only six miles an hour, and the other train waa going much faster. The two enginea collided. Conductor Charles Warren. In a dazed man lier, said he could not account for the wreck; that by nis wstca oe naa. a minute ciear to make the siding.

He has-been thirty years in the service. William Benton of Minneapolis, conductor of No. 24, aaid he was running oa schedule time. Each train, had about twenty loads, but only a few box ears were wrecked. W.

F. Miles and William Dickson, colored. were injured, but-wlll recover. Clyde Miller, brakeman. at first reported killed, is now said to be only slightly hurt- MAYOR IS ENJOINED.

Attesapt Prevent th SlaralaaT of Mil- vraakee Garhasve Beads. MILWAUKEE. Sept. 17. This after noon an injunction, restraining in em xrom signing the municipal- garbage bends, was served on the, mayor and other city officials.

The Injunction, which waa Issued by Court Commissioner Kyan, will come to a Bearing In twenty days. John F. Burn bam la tne plaintiff. It Is claimed a new issue of bonds III exceea in city tegai oonaea loaeoiea- cess, ana mat in legislation aneciing ue garbage matter recently, enacted at Madison is unconstitutional. Caaadlaa Preafcytertaa Xlalatera.

In Canada th ana station fund of the Pr- bytcrlaa church bow secures a minimum stipend of XTTj. with a bum, to all its ministers. THE SMITH COLLEGE PARTY Leaving here Tuesday, tka fist, on the "Boston Special (LtM enoi aa Mlcoigan Bontnetn promise, to a lars one. Applica tions for sleeping-car soar mar be addressee to city office. No.

1M Clark street or C. WilfrcrA. O. r. jLf MAY NOT GIVE MONEY Bntterlna Dealers Win the First Point in Tbeir Fight SECURE AN: INJUNCTION Produce Exchange Prohibited from Appropriating Batter Dealer Adasit So Dlscoara areas eat sal dais That the Matter Will Foaght to Flalsh.

For something over two hoars yesterday afternoon the butterine and anti-buttetino forces of the stock exchange waged a merry war over th points at issue between them. When an adjournment waa finally taken both side seemed aa confident aa ever of ultimate victory. The grand coup of the day must be set down to the advantage of the butterine men. Shortly before the hour set for the assembling of the members of the exchange ene of their number, accompanied by a constable, circulated deftly among those prominent on the butter side of th question add servtd copies of an injunction issued by Judge Clifford, restraining the produce exchange from appropriating any sum of money to aid the National Dairy association In pushing their eases against butterine dealers, and also restraining the specified members of the exchange from voting In the meeting. Those upon whom the injunction was served are the following: H.

A. Emerson and W. S. Moore, vice presidents of the exchange, and J. L.

Low, li B. Kilbourne. Daniel Coyne. J. C.

Scales. J. E. Keith. Joseph Brown, and O.

E. Whltcomb, members of the board of directors; and Percy M. Littler, the secretary. Of these men. all except Keith and Littler are butter dealers.

After the serving of th adjunction there was nothing left for the exchange to do bat lay the question of making the desired appropriation oa the table. It took some two hours, however, to do this. Joseph N. Friedman and J. H.

Carmody, who had obtained the Injunction, were both present, and took a vital Interest in the doings or the exchange. The butter board of the exchange meets tomorrow morning and immediately after their adjournment another meeting will be held to discuss the best means of having the Injunction set aside. Mr. Joseph Brown of No. IS9 South Water street and a member of the board of directors said about the result of the meeting: "There was nothing for us to do but adjourn.

If wo had taken any action in the face of that Injunction we would have been In contempt of court. The fight however, is by no means over. Get Oat aa lajaaetlaa. Testerfay a meeting waa called to consider the" aj or arprrprfatlag te sum or $2 n-f the union. The butter fs' ernie! be in a.

ma jority at n. vM-t; ac i at tlie of tae fruit tr. aftemoot. It adjomed until th: he crest a. heatlrj ty H- Carmody, and Francis M.

kaJ taken out aa Injunction prohibiting the cd proprlatlon of any funds whatever to aid the dairymen In having the constitutionality of the law tested. This afternoon, by a close vote, tne appropriation laid on the table. "The object of this exchsnge Is to benefit the business Interests of the traders. Money has been appropriated to protect the fruit deal ers, and we butter dealers see no reason why it snouia not again appropriated In this case. We are not Jealous of Armour, Swift and other large dealers.

On the contrary, we believe that the larger the dealers the larger and better, the markets and the more profit for us alL "It has been frequently stated that we butter dealers were forming a trust to bull tbe market In the first place, It is Impossible to find two butter men who will agree for two consecutive minutes, and. In the sec ond place, butter is not a commodity that can be held for a corner on the market All we ask is to be given a fair show against the butterine men." It was rumored that the butter dealers had announced their readiness to reduce the sise or the appropriation for which they were ask ing from 1 3,000 to si.000. but this could cot be verified. It was further said that a move ment, fathered by the butterine men, was foot to wind up the exchange. CATTLE FEVER CURE FOUND.

Discovery mt Great Inaaortaaee Seataera Stock Regloaa. i- DENVER. Sept- 17. After many months of effort and repeated experiments a cure for cattle fever haa been found. Dr.

V. A. Norgaard of thie city Is the discoverer. Solution after solution was tried by him in th effort to find one that would be effectual and cheap, as well aa Immediate In Its results; The plan for dealing with the fever la primarily to extermlnatethe Insects known aa which abound on fever-stricken cattle, and through the means of which the disease Is communicated. To do this the cat tle are forced to swim through a solution In a vat.

What the solution Is la not nublic- ty known at the present time, but crude petroleum is used In It When the success ful experiment waa tried twenty-seven head of very "tlcky cattle were forced to swim tnrougn tne solution, ana it waa noticed that, while standing on the drip board, there waa almost a perfect rain of ticks falling off the catUe. Th cattle were put Into a pen. and the next day. Just seventeen hours after the experiment was tried, a rigid examination waa made, and the examiners failed to find a single live tick In th whole herd. There waa no damage don the eyes or skin of the cattle dipped, and not a tingle bad effect resulted from the dipping." If the aew remedy proves to do alt thai it Is claimed it can do.

the cattle market will experience somewhat of a revolution, and about 600,000 head of cattle will be shipped North each year during the now prohibited season, which extends from Feb. 15 to Not. 15. The "fever line." from beyond the limits of which no cattle can be shipped to the North during the prohibited period, as it now stands. stretches from ocean to ocean, and Arizona.

New Mexico, Texas, Indian territory. Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama. Virginia, part or West Virginia, and Louisiana form the dis trict affected. Stat Veterinarian Gresswell Is very much plessed with the results of Dr. Norgaard a experiments, and says without doubt the long-sought remedy haa been found.

A meeting of all states and territories that handle cattle haa been called to meet In Fort Worth on Sept. 27, and at this meeting It la expected that the new scheme of dipping cattle will be shown, and should it prove a success there many of the states will be ready to so modify their laws that the cattle of the South can enter the Northern markets. IS ACCUSED OF THEFT. Mas Xasaed Saalth I Arrested at Sew Philadelphia, 111. CANTON, 111..

Sept 17. Special Telegram. Detective Eddy of the Pacific Express com pany this morning arrested a man giving the name of Smith at New Philadelphia, this county. Smith waa wanted for the theft of a money order book from the Pacific ex press office at La Crosse, I1L. two weeks ago.

Us purchased, a large amount of Jewelry at Chicago with on of the stolen orders. It Is alleged, and expressed this Jewelry to New Philadelphia. Detective Eddy followed th packages, and when Smith claimed the packages Friday morning he waa arrested and placed under $5,000 bonds. On a box la his possession waa found $500 worth of railroad tickets. Two hundred dollars worth of tick-eta were stolen from the Toledo.

Peoria and Western depot la this city Thursday. ALL MUST DISPLAY LIGHTS. Flaal Xotice Served Owstn Vehicles City Hall Kate. Chief Kipley Issued a special order to his men yesterday requesting them to serve owners of vehicles with final notice to obey that portion of the wheel tax ordinance requiring bicycles and all other vehicles to display lights at night This la the last notice that will be given the public oa the subject After Oct 1 persons who violate that portion of the ordinance will arrested and prosecuted by th police department Chief Kipley also calls attention to the ordinance prohibiting the scattering of waste paper and similar material along the public streets and alleys." and orders his men to arrest every person who violates the 6rdlnance. According to Acting Commissioner of Public Works Toolen.

the trouble at the Bridgeport pumping station Thursday night waa caused by persons Interested In a condemnation suit brought by the drainage board at Jollet Thursday. Oa Wednesday night it Is aid, several attorneys Interested in fighting the drainage board called at the pumping station and succeeded in getting the engineer la charge to use extra efforts to have the engines run at full speed, as the Jury in the case was to view the canal at Jollet to ascertain whether the flow in the stream had value as a means of water power. The owners of the property to be condemned wanted to impress the Jury with the fact that water power of the canal added to to value of the engineer grew too enthusiastic, and ruined the plans of the interested atorney. as be allowed the steam to rise in the boilers until one of the main steam pipes exploded and the engines stopped. Within a fortnight, when the eligible list of th police department is posted, as promised by Commissioner Winston yesterday.

Chief Kipley. it Is said, will issue a general order discharging about 500 patrolmen appointed under the 8wlft administration, to make room for the successful Star league candidates. This new list will contain 1,400 names, and under Alderman Coughlin'a ordinance, passed by the council several months ago, all vacancies will be filled from among the ranks of the former members of the department on the eligible list, although there Is at present aa eligible list of patrolmen containing 1.000 men. The circulating depsrtment of the library in the city hall will be closed tonight, preparatory to the removal of the books to th new library, which will be begun -Monday. Arrangements have been made to receive books now in the hands of patrons at a room on th Washington street side of the aew building, and Librarian Hlld announces that If the books are not promptly returned, either to the new building or the delivery stations, the regular fines will be exacted.

The grtid Jury ystfrday Hngh I T-ftfr, il recta! 1 en.tlovt 1 i ta er Lr jy Ptvae, th M.ct!an i -fr- iiTM-ro-ir. is er-ire'. laxcony. Works MeGann. tt cf Strtct Cleaning Fitxslmmons.

and Aldemaa Mavor are expected to return tonight from their visit to the large Eastern clues, wnere toey went i study the various systems of garbage re-duct ion. Today and tomorrow the new public library huildlnr will be kept open for inspection by the public between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m.

This will DO IM last opportunity wi- fered to Inspect the building before it is formally opened for business, Oct. 11. MRS. STOUFFER ISCHQSEN. Becomes Preoldeat of the Foarteeath District W.

C. T. V. PEORIA. Sept.

17. Special Telegram. The annual meeting of the W. T. V.

for the fourteenth Congressional district closed tonight This morning reports were presented as follows: On Sabbath observance, by Mrs. Carrie Jewett. La con; press work. Mrs. Jennie Stouffer.

Peoria; hygiene, heredity, ana narcotics. Mrs. Esther Auten. Monica; relation of th kindergarten to the W. T.

Mrs. Lines. Peoria; mothers meetings, Mrs. E. O.

Hlbben. Peoria; franchises. Mrs. EllaS. Stewart.

Mackinaw. At the afternoon session the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. D. O. Stouffer.

Peoria; vice president Mrs. Ella H. Osborn. Henry: secretary. Miss Lin a Jordan.

Elm wood; treasurer. Mrs. Lucie B. Tyng. Peoria; county presidents, Putnam, Mrs.

Nettle McNabbe; Peoria, Miss Llna Jordan; Fulton, Miss Prudence Berry; TaaeweU, Mrs. J. Smalt The following papers wer presented: "Railroad Work," Mrs. Alice Thompson. Mount Palatine; "Vn-fermented Wine," Miss Llna Jordan.

Elm-wood; "A Matter of Justice." Mrs. Ella 8. Stewart. Mackinaw, "Watch Mrs. Lucie B.

Tyng. Peoria: T. U. Contests, Mrs. Julia A.

Graves, La con. At the evening seasion-ther waa an address by Miss Maria C. Brehm. TANNER OFFERS A REWARD. Isaaea as Preelaasatlaa Rea-ardlasT Re esverr of Bdlea Kehaa aad react.

SPRINGFIELD, "Sept 17. Governor Tanner today Issued the following proclamation: Whereas, It has been represented to me that Sergeant John Kehm of company. and Private Alexander Vebel of company both of the First Infantry, Illinois National guard, were, oa tha 9th day of August, A. D. 1S97.

drowned In Lake Michigan while returning from Fort Logan to Waukegan la a small sailboat; aod -Whereaa. At the time of their death the said John Kehm and Alexander TL'ebei were wearing tha etate uniform of tbe Illinois national guara, having beea on duty at rlfla practice, and It ap-Dearlna- that search thus far haa failed to dla- cover the bodies of the deceased Now, therefore. I. John K- Tanner, oy virtue of the power veated In me as Governor of tha state of Illinois, do proclaim and offer a reward of CSO for the recovery of the body of either of these deceased, if found In or upon the waters of Lake Michigan, provided that the bodies are recovered within aw feet oi snore this reward Is to be $100 for either or each body so recovered. JOHN H.

TANNER. Governor. LICENSED TO DO BUSINESS. few Coaeeraa Give a Aathertty Beeease laearaarales. SPRINGFIELD.

Bept 17. Special Tele gram. Tbe Secretary of State today licensed the Incorporation of the following companies: Ebor Frantis Ka Gregorova. Ne. Tt Jedaoty Ceskych Dam (Unity of the Bohemlaa Ladies J.

C. at Grand Croaalng; Incorporators. Ruxena Uamous, Aixbeta Dvorakova. Marl Vomacka. and ethers.

Walker-Otto eomnaav. cnicago: capital stork. xTA.ert: Incorporators. William B. Walker.

Louis Otto, and Jalloa Goldzler. Ewing college, at Kwtng. eertieed to a change of name to Ewiag Baptist colleca. Iowa Saffraglsta Meet. DUBUQUE.

Iowa. Sept 17. Special Telegram. A womaa'a aaffrag convention, under the direction of Miss M. C.

Hay. national manager. opened here today. Mayor CuSy aad Dubuque women spoke tats artemoon, ens kcv. Henrietta O.

Moore of 8prtnenld. Ohio, this evening. Rev. Anna H. Shaw of Philadelphia speaks to morrow.

Erie lines will aell. Spt. 22 and ZS. excursion tickets to Niagara Kalis, good returning unui SepC- ZT. at rata of $9 for the round trip.

Detail information, ticket omce, ZU Souta Clara treat. RISE OF IW SOUTH Birmingham Interested In Armor-Plate Plant Talk. WILL OFFER A SITE Many Advantages Claimed for the Alabama City. MR. HESTER'S REPORT Interesting Statistics on Cotton Are Presented.

Largest Item of american Exports All the Mills Pay Good Dividends. NASHVILLE. Ten Sept 15. Special Correspondence. A few days ago the Washington correspondent of The Inter Ocean stat ed that "Mr.

Roosevelt's recent tonr of Inspec tion of the naval militia along the lakea was eminently satisfactory to him. and he was very enthusiastic over the Interest taken la the navy In the West" It was farther stated that the AaxisUal Secretary or the Navy "had found more interest In Chicago in the work of building up' the navy aad the coast defenses than he had found In the East. He believed in eficonra-' ging thia Interest and having the armor plata for the navy manufactured weat of the Alleghany mountains. The iron ore and the coal were there, and there was little doubt thst the West could manufacture armor plate as cheap aa the East The armor plate could be supplied by the Interior Just as well as and better than the country on the seaboard. It waa at first suggested that the beard had.

no authority to consider the question of location. Subsequently, however, it was decided that the board could "Investigate and report oa sites for a plant" An effort la being made' to Induce the board to visit Birmingham. fcr the purpose of making a full Investigation as to the ad-, vantages of that place for the manufacture of armor plate. The Commercial club of Birmingham has appointed a committee consisting or Congressman Underwood and ex-Congressman Aldrich of thst district sad Colonel A. M.

Shook or this city. This committee has given active attention to the mat-' ter. rVooel Shook Is vice president of the Tet-ce-e real. Iron aad Raltrcafl company, and is resided authority on all ma u-rs to the or iron aid' rect-ut Interview Co-onl Stcok sa'd: "Or 9i i 'laves tbe United Sia's BtTlay--ham ia the bos? for the plant and for reasons that are ohrin. The first and perhaps best reason Is that there la today more pig Iron manufactured at Bir mingham for sale In the markets than In any other district In America, and at a cost that will absolutely defy competition.

Aay-qsrt-Uon as to the adaptability of this Iron for tbe manufacture of armor plate la readily an swered ty the fact that Carnegie used as a mixture In the manufacture of the plate pig iron made by the Tennessee Coal. Iron asi Railroad company. 'It is claimed that Birmingham has tbe advantage of other Interior points in the matter -of freight rates to tide water. The rate frona Birmingham to the seaboard Is II per ten, while the rate from Pittsburg is Z.2Z. Southern papers have begun to urge the claims of the South, and.

Congressman Gaines of this district is making a special effort to bare the board visit the South. It has been pointed out by Colonel Stork that Franco manufactures her own armor--plate at a factory that cost about I7M.0C4. England Is said to hare the best manufactory for armor-plate la the world. This plant cost ii.soe.ooo. But the most significant Influence which has been directed In behalf or Birmingham la found In a letter from Mr.

Samuel Spencer of New York, president of the Southern trail- way, to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt Mr. Spencer emphasizes "the exceptional advaa- tages as to the close proximity of the Bir- mir.gham region to all of the raw materials entering Into the Iron manufacture. "it his long been known." says Mr. Spencer, "that the ores are well adapted to the manufacture of ateel. the Birmingham pig having been forwarded In large quantities to both Chicago and Pittsburg for treatment io open hearth furnaces." The Southern railway Is the most extensive system In the South, operating over S.ooe -miles of read.

The policy of this company la dictated In New York. It. therefore, pears a little strange that the Southern should advocate the building of an armor-plate plant In the. South. But the management of the Southern haa adopted, latterly, a very progressive policy In the South.

When we consider the present policy of the Southern railway ia connection with the recent aggressive movement of large business concerns in Near York and Philadelphia toward the South. It appears that there Is strong evidence of the beginning of great Industrial development la the South. And It Is also manifest that the East Is beginning to realise that It has- no absolute title to Southern business and that -the Southern states wHl not always be provinces ot New York. Speaking of the agitation In the matter.of locating a government armor-plate plant a prominent iron master of the South said to ae: "Birmingham Is. without doubt, the proper place for such a plant but I don't think there Is much showing lor Birmingham.

The South haa not been recognised since the war In the -expenditure of Federal revenues, and I ana afraid the time has not yet come. But this agitation will call attention to Birmingham and It will also emphasise the claims of the West Carnegie and Rockefeller have combined to control the Iron and steel business ot this country. They are systematically working to crush the Illinois Steel company. If they can succeed It will bo a fatal blow to the Iron and steel Industry of the West and Ae Sooth Is not financially strong enough to struggle alone. The government should build an armor-plate plant and the South should throw Its aupport to the West when It appears that we are not In the fight" The late report of Secretary Hester of tne Now Orleans cotton exchange contains aoin very Interesting facta and figures.

The comparative developmeat ot cotton maaafaetur-lsg In the North and the South during eight.