The Reading Record from Reading, Kansas • 1

T7-jnr .1 tfjf READING VOL, 1. READING, LYON KANSAS 14, 1899. NO. 32. WINDWARD IS BACK.

KANSAS NOTES. DREYFUS CONVICTED. THE MARKETS. MILLIONS4 NEEDED. JAMES B.

EUSTIS 13 DEAD. Once Senator From Louisiana and Ambassador to France. James B. Eustis is dead from pneumonia. He was ambassador to France BLOCKADE LIFTED.

Largeit Fleet Ever Assembled on Lake Begins to Move. Saci.t Ste. Marie. Mich. The embargo on Lake Superior navigation, by the sinking of tha steamer Douglas Houghton in the Soo passage was lifted Sunday.

The largest fleet ever accumulated on the lakes, if not in America, began to move soon after, and one vast naval procession headed down the lakes, while PEARY'S STEAMER HAS RETURNED WITH NEWS. IVIil Winter la Greenland Careful Preparations for a Dash North Next Spring Secured Records of Creely Expedition. Brigus, Newfoundland. The Peary-Ilarmsworth steamer Windward, Captain John Bartiett, from Etah, North Greenland, August 2o, has ar- rived here, reporting all well on board. She will be followed in a week by the Peiry Arctic club's steamer Diana, also from Etah.

The Windward reports that all on board the Diana were well at the time the vessels separated. The two steamers met at Etah on August 12 and worked in company under the personal direction of Lieu-te nant Peary, in collecting supplies for the winter and the equipment for next springs campaign. Lieutenant Peary and the sledge parties were in the field almost continuously from October, 1S9S, to August of this year, and have effected an extraordinary amount of important work. Ha had the misfortnno to have both feet frost bitten, which necessitated six weeks" delay and confinement, until he couid make the return trip. Lashed to a sledge he was hauled all the way to tho Windward, where several toes were amputated.

Complete recovery followed rapidly, and he now walks as well as ever. Lieutenant Peary found Fort Conger exactly as Greely left it. The table was standing from the last meal, and all the other appointments had remained undisturbed for sixteen years. The buildings were in fair condition, though some of them would not be serviceable much longer. lie took possession of the property, real and personal, in the name of the United States government, and posted notices to that effect.

He brought away, anu is sending nome, tne original Greely records, the sextant of Lieutenant Beaumont, 11. of the Uares-Markham expedition of ISTfi-S, recovered bv Lieutenant Loekwood. ujauj ji i tii.tr iirtcra illiu pupc.3 of members of Greely's party, KILLED THEM IN THE SAHARA. The French Mission of Fourein-Limsj Is Reported Annihilated. The French mission in the Sahara, headed by Foureau and Major Lamay has been annihilated.

The mission was attacked by an immense body of Tuaregs. who, after suffering terrible loss, killed aU tho members of the mission by force of arms. May Save the Transport -Morjjrn City. The captain of the United States transport Morgan City, which was wrecked September 1 by striking a reef eight miles from Ononuehi, Japan, says there are good prospects of saving the vessel and that divers have been engaged for the purpose of trying to float her. Train Robbers Get SI 0,000.

Los Angeles, CaL The westbound Southern Pacific express, which was held up near Cochise, has arrived here with the express car wrecked. The amount the robbers received is not believed to be in excess of 10,0 JO. Marconi to Come to America-Bear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment, has been informed that Signor Marconi will come to Washington to discuss with him he proposed experiments with wireless telegraphy. Automobile Gun Carriage. The inventor of an automobile gun carriage will make a trip across country from Chicago to Washington under the auspices of the war department to teat the efficiency of his intention.

Captain Dyer Honored. Captain Dyer, commander of the cruiser Baltimore, was presented with handsome sword by the city of Baltimore, in recognition of his gallant services at Manila. Lljhtnlng's Fatal Work. Tuscola, IU At the Douglass county fair at Carmen, lightning struck the grand stand, killing two men instantly, fatally injuring two more aid seriously disabling six others. Forru an Imnlne System.

It is said that the Illinois Central, Baltimore and Ohio, and Union Pacific systems will be merged into one system extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Altgeld Declines. Ex-Governor Altgeld has declined Governor Tanner's invitation to attend the conference of trust), to be held at Chicago, September 15. lore Cubans ReleaseX Nina mora Cuban prisoners have been released from the Spanish military prison at Cadiz. Betrayed the Indian.

Moilie Vollmer, a half-breed girl, jealous of his attentions to another woman, betrayed John White Turkey, the Indian desperado, to the ofli- trs. He will be taken to Muscogee stand trial for murder. Iowans Prepare to Salli The Iowa regiment, the last of the volunteer organizations on duty in island of Luzon, has been withdrawn from Calula preparatory to departing for home. The number who ill sail is ft6. Kansas City.

CATTLE Best beeves. 1 5 63 a 9 00 Stockers 4 3 i 8- Native caws. lli 3 8 Feeders 410 45i HOGS Choice to heavy 3 00 iJ 4 4 SHEEP Fair to cioica 3 5 0 4 0 WHEAT No. 2 red. 67tf ft 8i No.

2 hard 4 6. COR No. 2 mixed 23 2 OATS-No. 2 20 It YE No. 2 5i 4 Si FLOCK-Patent, p3r bbl 3 25 40 Fancy 3 80 3 HAY Choice timothy 7 00 7 5U Fancy prairie 6 01 6 5) BRAN (sacked) 53 51 BUTTER Choice 13 JJ EGOS Choije 11 12 POTATOES 2J 23 Chicago.

CATTLE Common to 4 50 HOGS-Paching and 4 35 SHEEP Fair to choice 3 75 6 5) 4 70 Ci 6 23 3 6l FLOUR-Winter WHEAT No. 2 red CORN-No 2 OATS No 2 13 UTTER Creamery LARD POKK 3 i) 70-4 i 7Ji Sl'ii Sly 21" 21 IS 2J 5 5 27; 8 00 4ft 8 10 St. Louis. CATTLE Native and shipping. Texar.s HOGS Heavy SHEEP air tc choice FLOUK-Cnoica WHEAT No.

2 red CORN No 2 mixed OATS No. 2 mixed KYE-No 2 BUTTER-Croamery LARD Western mess PORK 3 5) 2 43 4 31 4 51 3 30 es 3) Si 6 30 (ft 4 63 4 65 5 25 dft 3 50 68 i (fft 23 51 55:, 17 21 5 07 5 12 9 U0 it 9 2 Horses draft. SI6); coach horses, saddle horses Mules Best ranged from $350.1 10, according to size. Big Cattle Fraud. Five different commission firms at the Kansas City stock yards have been victims of a conspiracy to defraud them of thousands of dollars.

Seven men and two women are said to have been in the gang, which has already obtained over in the past two months from the five Kansas City commission firms. One herd of cattle was driven from county to county in Nebraska. Kansas and Missouri and money borrowed on it Ohio Can't Have Stanley. uovernor Stanley has received an invitation from Chairman Dick of the Ohio state Republican central com mittee to spend two weeks, beginning October 23, making speeches in the campaign in that state. Governor Stanley is compelled to decline, be cause Chairman Morton of the Kansas state committee insists mat tne governor go into tne Kansas October 1.

Nation il Bank Deposits- Deposits in the National banks of Kansas City continue to increase rap idly. There was a gain of 32,000,000 between June 30 and September The total deposits in the six National banks now are almost 544,500,000. A year ago they were so the increase in twelve months araounis to SI a gain of more than 40 per cent. Government Crop Report. The September government crop re port makes the condition of wheat winter and spring 70.

9 per cent, com pared with 7 a year ago. The condition of corn is Ml 2, compared with SO. 9 a month ago, and sl.l a year ago. The wheat figures suggest a crop a little under 500,000,000 bushels. Edison's Gold Ore Separator.

Thomas A. Edison thinks he has an electrical process for separating gold ore Irom saml that will niaue available large amounts of ore in the Southwest. Bank Teller Shurt 910,030. The account of Ned II. Copeland railroad teller of the Nebraska National bank of Omaha, is short.

Mr. Copeland has disappeared. Rallroals for Iczm Spanish capitalists are making arrangements for the building of a modern railroad lino in Luxon that will connect Manila with all the important towns of the island. Home Rnle for Negros. General Otis will let the people of Negros elect a civil governor and council, but the military governor, Brigadier General James F.

Smith, will have supreme control. Miss Graut's Fiance Arrives. Prince Cantacnzene, who is to marry Miss Julia Grant, has arrived from Europe. Potter Talmer, Miss Grant's uncle will bestC77 upoii ner a dowery of 5500,000 Kentucky Feuds Rag toff. The French-Eversole feud is raging in Kentucky.

One death and several persons injured is the result of a bat tle Thursday. The Philpot-Griflin feud is also ominous in Clay County. A Treacher Killed In a Runaway. The Rev. James C.

Caldwell, aged 65 years, a well known Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, was killed in a runaway accident in German-town, Pa. Root for Vice President. There are whisperings in political circles that Elihu Root, secretary of war, is likely to be the administration's candidate for the Republican nomination for vice president. A Paris Architect Is Flrit San Francisca The new buildings for the University of California will be built from the plans of M. Benard, the Paris architect The jury unanimously rawarded the first prize, to the design from Paris.

To Retain Shatter. General Shafter is to be retained in command of the department of tho Pacific even after the time for his retirement, as a reward for his services the Santiago campaign. 250,000 PORTO RICANS MUST BE FED. Nothing There to I.lve On Absolute Destitution Until New Crop Can Be Raised Governor General Davis Appeals for Aid. New York.

The Porto Rican relief committee of the Merchant's Association has received an acknowledgment from General George W. Davis, governor general of the island of Porto Rico, of the goods shipped by that committee on the transport Mc-Clellan, which left here on the 23d of August. General Davis, after thanking the committee for the supplies sent, said: "The fruit add most of the food crops of the island are totally destroyed. Upon these, as you well know, the people subsist, living from hand to mouth, and without these there is nothing intrinsic in Porto Rico, nor any food reserve, upon which they can live until a new crop is produced. Neither have they the means of purchasing food, even were it here in abundance.

'If my conclusions as to tha extent of the destruction of food supplies be correct, the stress of hunger will be an increasing one from this forward for many weeks, and we must prepare to feed not less than 230,000 people until the earth can bring forth fresh supplies. What this means is shown by a single mathematical demon stration summed up in the question At tne rate of one pjund of fooi per day, how many pounds of food would it take to feed 250,000 persons 119 days? "We might go further in our calcu lation by considering the cost of this iooa ana or distributing it, lor, even though all the military resources of the island are being used in distribu tion. nevertheless the expense of get- 1 ting the food to the hungry will be approximately about 8 per cent of the cost of the food. This cost cannot be 1 much less than SI, 50.1,000, even if the 1 diet be as proposed, rice, beans and codfish or bacon. Can we get that sum? And, if we can, will your com mittee be able to prevent it going into anything but the cheapest kind of good food?" THEY URGE MERCY.

Dreyfus Judges Send a Formil Recommendation to Loubet The judges of the Dreyfu3 court-! martial have signed a formal recom-1 mendation for mercy. Its object is to eliminate the degradation feature of the punishment. When M. Labori's secretary informed Dreyfus of this action he was greatly affected and said: "I st ill have hopes." Rennes, France Dreyfus must remain in Rennes until after his degradation, lie has signed his appeal to the military court of revision in Paris. It will be several weeks before the court can give nn answer, oiving to the amount of business on hand in regard to degradation.

The degradation is held to be inevitable, unless it is remitted by President Loubet. Loubet probably will order the degradation remitted. As soon, therefore, as the military court of revision gives a decision Dreyfus will be taken to Corsica, Mme. Dreyfus going, too, for a time. In addition a strong effort will be made for pardon.

Matthieu Dreyfus says that very influential signatures to a petition have been promised since Germany is establishing the fact that Dreyfus is absolutely innocent, so far as Germany is concerned. Five of the judges also will sign the petition, Matthieu hopes, and all eventually may consent Loubet is an extremely merciful man, so there is a strong probability that "he will, sooner or later, set Dreyfus free. HAD TO JOIN THEIR UNION. President McKInley Made Eligible to Lay Corner Stone. Chicago.

President McKiniey now a trades union man. He was elected a member of the Bricklayers' and Stone Masons' International union. No. 21, of Chicago. President Gibbons of the union said that since the chief exeeutivo was to lay the cornerstone of the new postoilice it was necessary that the President join the union before he is allowed to handle a trowel in Cook county.

Navsl Veterans Split. The National Naval Association of Veterans has split on the question of admitting Spanish war veterans, with the result that there will be two naval veteran bodies. Horses for Philippine Army. The quartermaster's department has landed 430 hd of horses and mules at Manila; there are 2,500 on the sea and arrangements are about completed to ship 2,400 more within a few weeks. Seven Dead in a Freight Wreck.

A freight on the Norfolk Western railway broke in two at Williamson, and the sections collided in Dingass tunnel. Three of the crew and four tramps were killed. Can't Eeep Them Out. Treasury officials fear wholesale admission of Chinamen to this country under the act authorizing them to be brought in to take part in the Philadelphia exposition. Trusts During: August, During August trusts with an aggregate capitalization of were authorized to do business in Vz'is country.

Bishop Pierce Is Dead. Bishop Pierce, Episcopal bishop oi Arkansas, did at Fayetteville, Ark. i in SENTENCED TOTEN YEARS IN PRISON. Pound Guilty of Trenoo by the French Court Martbtl ltl Om Mora Jalffe Voted for Dreyfus the Prisoner Would Bare Been Freed. Rennes, France.

Tha judges have found Dreyfus guilty of treason. Dreyfus was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. The court stood five to two for the Condemnation of the prisoner. The crowd outside greeted the announcement with cheers for the aimy. Had one more judge voted for acquittal Dreyfus would have been acquitted.

By the rules of the French court-martial the bare majority of the CAPTAIN DREYFLS. Judges would not have convicted. Therefore, a vote of 4 to 3 for conviction would have resulted in acquittal. Tlir vote of 5 to 2 was the lowest limit by which he could be convicted. The court found extenuating circumstances.

The prisoner was not in the court room when the verdict was read. As had been arranged, lie was taken from the court room when the judges left to decide on a verdict. After the verdict was read in the court room an official went to an adjoining room in the Lycee, where Dreyfus was, and read the judgment to him. The judgment was read to Dreyfus in an adjoining little room by the clerk of the court, M. Coupois.

Dreyfus listened impassively, did not give the slightest sign of emotion, did not utter a word, and marched back to prison like an automaton. It is understool Dreyfus will be sent to Fort Corte in the island of Corsica. Captain Dreyfus was condemned by secret court-martial in a trial lasting two days, late in for betraying French army secrets to the Germans ind was sentenced to exile and im prisonment for life. After serving five years he was given a new trial. Dreyfus arrived in France July 1 and his trial began August 7.

From I'nlversal Ieaoe. In an address at Carlsruhe, Emperor William said: "Many centuries must elapse before the theory of permanent peace attains universal application. At present the surest bulwark of peace for the German empire consists in its princes and the army they lead." Orders for Negro Rexlmaatl An order for the organization of the two negro regiments has been issued from the War department. All the field officers of these two regiments are white men now in the regular army. All of the company dicers are negroes who served in the war with Spain.

Nevada Entbuci Over Bryan. Carson, Nev. Friday was a general holiday throughout Western Nevada, all business having been suspended in honor of the visit of William Jennings Bryan. All the mines were closed down for the day. Rebels iln la Venezuela.

Caracas, Venezuela. The revolution, under the leadership of General Castro, is gaining ground. The insurgents now occupy Nirgua, three days' march from Valencia. Valencia is only 103 miles from Caracas, the capital. Trestle Give Way.

Columbia. S. C. Two hundred feet of trestle on the Columbia, Newberry Lourens road over Broad river, near this city, gave way under atrainload of granite. Several cars and an engine fell fifty feet into the water.

Married In a Sedalla Street Fair Booth. More than 5.003 people saw the marriage of Emmett 1L Fowler of Windsor, and Miss Ida Stanley of La-monte, in an elevated booth at the Sedalia street fair. Hungarians Won't Exhibit. The Hungarian people have given notice of their withdrawal of exhibits from the Paris exposition on account of the Dreyfus verdict. Jumped to Ills Deat'i.

Midway between the two great towers of the Brooklyn bridge a man whose name no one knows climbed over the railing and went to his death in the East river. Wabash Earnings. The tenth annual report of the directors of the Wabash, shows aa increase in gross earnings of over Army Worm In Missouri. Vienna, Mo. Army worms have damaged pastures and corn in this section.

The pasture are eaten -lean. Cheap Telephones. telephone war is in progress at rshall, the rates beiag cut as as fifty cents a month. Atchison has thirty-two saloons. Wichita has the automobile fever.

Salina is to have a woman minister. Major Inman has written a bock foe boys. Larned is making it warm for th A Hiawa tha physician drives a hack on the side. Emporia is ulling for a wholesale grocery house. A Catholic convent is being erected at Atchison.

Pawnee county corn crop estimated at 500, 0U0 bushels. Auctioneers are getting ready to reap their fall harst. Hiawatha is talking about getting up a sunflower carnival. The R. I.

and L'. P. are fighting-over the right of way in Wyandotte. During August U'10 engines were steamed up in the Emporia round house. 'Tis said that ex-Governor Leedy will be a candidate for United States senator.

Miss Cora Marshfield was elected to the chair of elocution in the state normal. Ellsworth county has paid off nearly 54 worth of debts in the past four years. The game laws ot Kansas interfere it no time with hunting criminals at Coffey ville. John J. Ingalls is one of the heavy losers by the failure of the Atchison national bank.

New grain elevator, with a capacity of 20.000 bushels will be erected at Leavenworth. Wichita isn't so worse. But forty-five drunks wrere run in during the month of August. The war department regards Kansas and Pennsylvania as the beat fields for recruits. The name of Cole Comfort of Ottawa county indicates his purpose ia moving to Alaska.

It is bard to run across a Kansas town that is not preparing for some kind of a hurrah time this falL The sham battle at the Hiawatha fair stopped suddenly when the chief bugler was run over by a wagon. Prof. IVeyer, a Kansas musician, has been awarded a prize in a contest ia piano competition in Boston. The number of students in the Kansas university this year will be in direct proportion to the sizj of the corn crop. The Corn carnival committee had 7 on deposit in the Atchison National b-iuk which was closed up last week.

Grant Gillett, who now has a dairy at Chihuahua, Mexico, with seventy cows in it, gets sixty cents a galion for his milk. Several Atchison young men went on a watermelon excursion and one of them came home picking bird shot out of his-legs. Land is so plentiful in Stafford county that the enthusiastic natives predict that it will run full twenty acres to the bushel. Six hundred eim trees have been or dered by the city council of St. John, to be delivered next spring.

They wul be p. anted ia the streets. The Santa Fe will charge S50 for officers and 835 for privates in bring ing the Twentieth Kansas home from San Francisco. The Kansas bureau cf immigration has shipped East samples of corn sev enteen feet high; also tomato stalks six feet high, with fruit at the very top. A Brown county woman painted a school house in order to set money to paint her barn, which shows there are some women who can use paint judiciously.

Kansas has 41,791 pensioners, who receive Sfi, 203, yearly, an average ofSl4S.45. Pennsvlvania has 104. 631 who draw 512,470, 795, or an average of 5119.13. Daniel Burch and Sarah Bureh of Kansas City, who were married twenty-three years ago, but who were divorced about two years ago, were remarried last week by Probate Judge Snyder. When the judge asked Mr.

Burch if he had been married before, he turned to Mrs. Burch and smilingly replied: "I guess we have. We were married nigh on to a quarter of century ago and lived together until about two years ago, when like two children we quarreled and parted. Since then we have realized that separation failed to bring contentment and' we propose to begin life over again." For August work the pay roll of the Memphis at Fort Scott amounted to just about S50, 000, reaching a larger figure than ever before. A Topeka man promised his wif faithfully to name his new silver mine in New Mexico after her.

Last week she saw the printed letterheads of the new mine for the first time, and instead of the pretty name of Marie Louise she found it called "The Holly Terror." The next annual meeting of the Kansas State Dairy assoc iation will be held at Manhattan, November 22 to 54. The man who works with a threshing crew doesn't have to dodge bullets or snick2rsees, but he is right next to danger all the time. In McPher-son county a man who was pitching bundJes allowed his fork to be caugat in a belt It was whirled around, he was struck in the abdomen, and in an instant he was completely disemboweled. Death resulted imme diatety. The Kansas newspaper proprietor who declined to accept a bottles of Kentucky whisky ia exchange-for an advertisement, fores a great fall in corn.

another started on ita way to Lake Superior. In the two there were over 200 of the largest craft under the American flag, save the few ocean liners. Dynamite was used to release the embargo, and tons of rock had to be blasted out of the channel to release the Houghton. It Is the North StarsTor. Professor CampbeTl," through the great telescope of Lick Observatory, has definitely ascertained that Polaris, popularly known as the North star, is really a triple system.

Two of the bodies in this system revolve around each other in a period of four days and at the same tima move in a much wider sweep around the third body in much the same way as we do the stars and the moon around the sun. St. l.oaU Politician Shot. St Louis. Mo.

William C. Pape, general superintendent of parks and a factor in politics, was shot and instantly killed at his home by Henry Fry, a huckster, who shortly after- card committed suicide. According to statements made by Fry, Mr. Pape had promised him a peddlers' license for some political service rendered, but had withheld it. Christian Scientists Win.

Springfield, I1L Attorney General Akin has rendered an opinion that the medical act of 1S93 does not prohibit the treatment of disease by men tal or spiritual method by Christian Scientists or others where no medicine is used, and that where a person dies during such treatment it is not an of fense under the criminal code of Illinois. Priest Weds Ills Nurse. Father Brady, a Catholic priest of Quincy, 111., was married in St. Louis to Miss Addie Gwinn, a Protestant. Father Brady was sick a long time in a hospital and was nursed by Miss G.vina.

The wedding was performed bv a protestant minister. Father Brady has been relieved from his church. Calls It a Holy War. Chaplain James Maillery, First Nebraska regiment, a Populist, in the sermon before the state G. A.

R. declared tha war in Luzon is a holy one. He would return there himself to fight, if necessary. The administration, he said, the undivided support of the country. A State Can't Bar Workmen.

Judge J. II. Rogers of tha federal court of Arkansas has decided that a state has no right to prohibit the entrance of citizens of another state in search of work and dissolved the injunction of a state court prohibiting such importation. A. D.

Shi Mile G. A. It. Chief. Philadelphia.

Colonel Albert D. Shaw of New York was elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. Judge Leo Rassieur of Missouri withdrew his name as a candidate. Irving Bobbins of Indianapolis was elected senior vice commander.

Spanish War Veterans. Washington. One hundred and twenty-five delegates were in attendance at the first meeting of the Veterans of the Spanish-American war, and effected a permsnent organization with General J. Warren Keifer of Ohio as comiuacder-in-chief. Fatal Duel at Tonkawa, O.

T. Tonkawa, O. T. J. D.

Arnold, ex-saloonkeeper, and W. T. Jamison, gambled and quarreled over money matters and both commenced shooting. Five shots were fired. Jamison is dead and Arnold also.

Report of a Massacre of Explorers. Africa. An unconfirmed report is current here that an exploring party which recently left for Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa, has, with only one exception, been murdered by the natives. More Negro Miners Imported. Bevier, Mo.

The Kansas and Texas Coal Company has brought in another consignment of negroes tc mine No. '61, making the fourth lot brought In by the company since the miners' strike was inaugurated, three months ago. Root Upholds Miles. Secretary Root has upheld General Miles in the recommendation for the purchase of a number of rapid-fire guns for use in the Philippines. General Buffington, chief of ordnance, disapproved the recommendation.

Omaha White City Sold. The Omaha exposition buildings have been purchased by a Chicago firm for 550.000. They arj to be transported to Chicago after the exposition closes on November 1. Declines an American Sword. Mme.

Dreyfus has written to an Atlanta, lady declaring that her husband cannot accept a sword from the American people. To ft" After Agulaatdo at Once, is reported from Washington that an immediate movement for the capture of Aguinaldo and his army has been ordered. Contractors Responsible. The coroner's jury has held the contractors responsible frr the Chicago coliseum vreck. a the AMBASSADOR EUSTI3.

and United States Senator from Louisiana, and was in politics forty years. THE DREYFUS VERDICT. Generally Denounced at an Outrage on Civilization. It would be difficult to describe adequately tha indignation the verdict of the Dreyfus court-martial has evoked everywhere in England. The excitement in the Jewish quarters of London is only natural.

Special prayers were offered throughout Saturday in all the synagogues on be half of Dreyfus, and as soon as the vcruxi was Known jews ana Jewesses were seen on every street corner, expressing execration, and many sobbing bitterly. The Dreyfus verdict causes a feeling almost of stupefaction in Berlin. It is universally agreed that the second verdict is a grave political blunder, a violation of the laws of civilization and an act of moral cowardice which the world will find it difficult to par don. In the United States the verdict is unanimously condemned as a disgrace to the civilization of the nineteenth century. THE NAVY TO HELP OTIS.

Ships to Figure In the Next Campaign In the Philippines. General Otis has been instructed in framing his plan of campaign for the dry season to allo.v for the fullest participation of the naval forces now in the Philippines, and as soon as he has been heard from the necessary orders will go forward to the naval commanders to co-operate with the army to an extent not before contem. plated. The ships will undertake to capture any of the ports now in insurgent possession that may be desired by the army and also to hold them indefinitely, thus making it possible to open tiie railroad on Luzon from the northern extremity. BIBLE TRUST NOW.

Publishing Bouses Are Getting Ready to Raise the Price. A Bible trust is the latest A scheme is now said to be on foot among the publishers of bibles, both in England and the United States, to combine for the purpose of raising the prici. Such a proposition has been quietly worked upon for months and only requires the settlement of a little "bad blood" between two English concerns and their American branches before a full fledged trust will be effected. Hundreds of Refcjrees. Cape Town.

Four trains contain ing refugees from Johannesburg have arrived here. Four hundred refugees have also arrived at Durban. During the past week the relief committee of Johannesburg assisted 2,000 cases of distress reported throughout he Transvaal. TV. J.

Stone In Kentucky. Louisville, Ky. Former Governor William J. Stone, of Missouri, acting chairman of the national Democratic; committee has arrived in Louisville, lie will make five speeches in Kentucky for the regular Democratic ticket Two Bis Mining Deals. City of Mexico.

Alexander Shepard of Washington. D. C. has sold his mining properties in Batoilas to an English syndicate for S3, The Rig Five Mining company of uouider, has been sola to a British syndicate for 52,500,000 cash. Forty-Two Years In the Navy.

Rear Admiral H. F. Picking, commandant of the Charleston navy yard, is dead, aged 59. lie entered the naval academy forty-two years ago and waj a lieutenant in the civil war. Filipinos Raising Funds.

The recent issue of Filipino pape; money amounts to S3, The ac ceptance of this issue is made obliga tory and the bills are made redeemable in three years. Farquhar to Succeed Sampson. The Davy department has decided to assign Rear Admiral Farquhar to command the North Atlantic station in place of Rear Admiral Sampson, who will assume command of tho Boston navy yard. Butchers' Plant at Wichita. New York.

Hudson McKnight, a leading citizen of Wichita, and closely identified with the commercial interests of tht city, is here to induce the butchers to establish their proposed p'xking house at Wichita. I.