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A PHILANTHROPIST GONE. Death of W. W. Corcoran, the j Aged Washington Banker. A Mail Who Spent Millions in Deeds of Benevolence. William Wilson Corcoran, the well known , Washington philanthropist, died at the Na- ! tional Canital a few davs &zo of senile bron- i cbitis, in the ninetieth year of his age. His end was peaceful. The duration of his present illness was but two weeks, though he had been gradually failing for the past year. Mr. Corcoran was born in Georgetown, j D. C., December 27, 179S. His father, Thomas Corcoran, was born in Limerick, ! Ireland, and coming to this country in 1783, j married Hannah Lemmon of Baltimore in I 1788. The son at the age of 18 entered into I the dry goods business with two elder brothers. George Peabody was soon after- ' ward taken into the firm. "They were at first ; successful,but under the stress of the financial ! panic of 1833 failed with assets that paid their creditors 50 per cent. Several years [ later Mr. Corcoran began business again, i taking charge of the real estate in the Dis trictof Columbia belonging to tbe United i States, managing it safely and profitably | until 1845, when he went into the banking ! hnsinpss with fienrtre IV. Rices, in the build- ! ing formerly occupied by the old United States Bank at Washington. The business ; was successful, but Mr. Corcoran's financial j ventures were so extensive that Mr. Riggs, j becoming afraid, withdrew from the firm. | Mr. Corcoran, carrying on the basiness ; alone, found himself with $12,000,000 of the j Mexican war loan on his hands in a falling j market He went to London, enlisted great J banking houses there in support of a loan I that seemed perilous, but that subsequently rose to a high premium, and laid the basis of a fortune that at the time ofjhis death amounted to $6,000,000. He retired from active participation in the banking business in 1354, and found plenty to do in the management of his own property affairs. He bought large tracts of real estate in Washington, erected buildings, increased his incohiein every direction, ana began those worksoyLiilaiithropy which will mnlrn liia rmmp r?nnpmhor(?il hv thfl side of his early partner, George Peaboiy. Plans of benevolence aggtn to have taken ! the foremost place in hi?o!icitudes of later ! years. The fruition or some of them are | seen at Washington in the beautiful Oak Hill : Cemetery in Georgetown, the Corcoran Art Gallery with its magnificent endowment, the "Louise" Home for Impoverished Gentlemen, the name indicating his love and memory for a wife ana daughter, both of whom are dead, countless ; gifts to churches, church homes, rich benefac- J tions to colleges and universities and theologi- | Ical seminaries, ceaseless contributions to institut;onsof public charity, besides thousands of dollars given away to needy individuals. It is estimated that Mr! Corcoran's charities, including private ones, exceed in the aggregate $o.000.000. Mr. Corcoran had long made his home in Washington the seat of an elegant hospital Iity and a centre of social influence, the fa- | vorite meeting place of scholars, artibts, j statesmen, diplomatists and distinguished s?jangers. Mr. Corcoran in 1S3> married Louise j Amory Morris, daughter of Commodore j Charles Morris. Mrs. Corcoran died five j years later. Their first child, a boy, died ' when an infant, and an only daughter, j v Louise, who married George Eustis (a brother of the present Senator Eustis of ! Louisiana), died in 1867, leaving two sons and j a daughter, who will undoubtedly inherit the 1 bulk of Mr. Corcoran's fortune. FATAL DISASTERS, Avalanchesof Snow in Italy Destroy- | mff Villages and People. Snow storms of exceptional severity hav | been prevailing in Northern Italy. The mu- 1 nicipal authorities at Turin have ordered the theatres, schools and markets to be closed in order to prevent accidents through j the falling of masses of snow. Several roofs have already collapsed, including that | of the railway freight depot. Several villages in the Alps have been destroyed by I ?avalanches and many lives have been lost. Troops have been dispatched to aid the suf- ' ferers. Many villages near Genoa and Lake Como are suffering for . the lack of food, and soldiers are 1 cutting their way through the snow to relieve them. A custom house near Revere was destroyed by an avalanche, and three guards and four other peVsons were killed. Anava-j lanche covered the village of Sterpone, near Irerea, and thirty lives were lost. Several avalanches haveo"ccurred in the Province of Oviedo, Spain, destroying a railway bridge and a number of houses. ; Eleven persons were killed at Pajares. TUT T AT5HT5 WADTTl XXJ.JJ 11 vj-tuiy. The Union Pacific Railroail Compaay fa about to place an order for 2,500 new cars. j Wages have been reduced recently in many of the iron furnaces in Pennsylvania. I The letter carriers are confident of the j passage of their eight-hour bill in Congress j at the present session. , Rhode Island is making a fair lookin4 I gold watch for $2.70, and a good looking : gold chain for eleven <-euts. The tanning of boa constrictor skins forms a'branch of industry in Hamburg, N. J. j They are made into pocket books principally, j The brick manufacturers of Pittsburg are said to be endeavoring to form a syndicate which will handle all the brick made in the city. Thr color test is beins enforced on the j Reading Railroad,and two engineers of forty ; years' experience have lost their places in con- ; sequence. The locomotive engineers on the principal roads centering in Chicago are making a sys- j tematic attempt to get au improved schedule ; and increased wages. J. W. Tufts, of Boston, silver plate and coda water apparatus manufacturer, who adopted a system of profit-sharing with his employes, has organized a bank for their benefit A dispatch from London says that an effort is to be made to find employment of some kind for the many people of that city who have been superseded as servants by German emigrants. Work is said to be very dull and almost at a standstill in the tobacco manufactories on account of the agitation over the abolition of the internal revenue tax on manufactured tobacco. Two of the most meritorious bills before the New Jersey Legis'ature require railroad CUHipaillVO IrV UUW/U1UVIV WU(iivia. ?im w i have hand rails on top of freight cars, for the ' > protection of brakemun. Twenty-five per cent, of the coko owners I iathe Connellsville region have shut down in ! accordance with the agreement made by the | operators. The suspension is for the purpose j of restricting production. This action throws 1,500 men out of work. An engraver on brass usually gets a salary of $>3,000 a year, and an engraver on steel about the same. There is as much skill required in the one as in the other, but the brass engraver works on a somewhat softer i metal, brasj not being so hard as steel. The working girls are. beginning to take advantage of the excellent musical and literary treats offered them free .each week by Miss Henrietta Marksteir.,of New York city. The attendance at the concerts for the working women every Sunday is growing larger eacL week, and the women are beginning *o realize that they bold a position in the city. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State*. Fire started in the five-story building at Buffalo, N. Y., occupied by J. E. Curtis, a glove manufacturer, and caused $870,000 damage. The Cunarder "Umbria" was washed by a huge wave during her last voyage, and thirty passengers were dashed against the bulkhead, one of them being killed and nine cut and bruised. The schooner Nellie Bowers was wrecked at Richmond's Island, off the Maine coast, and the Captain, together with three of the crew, was drowned. Mrs. Frank Draine, of Wilmington, Del., accidentally killed her five-monthsold babe by falling down a stairway upon it. The village of Manlius, near Syracuse, N. Y.. is terror-stricken by a malignant form of diphtheria, which has caused numer j?^ .1. ?: ous ueaius ana maue uie uiusuijj ui uic schools necessary. Fire destroyed the Union Square Theatre, New York City,and badly damaged the Morton House, an adjoining hotel. There were several minor casualties among the finmen, and the property loss aggregates about ? 000; fully insured. Sonfh and West. Dan*. Wren, the wealthiest of the Chicago boodlers, has been taken to Joliet to begin his ! two years' sentence. Israel Lucas, the Treasurer of Auglaize County, Ohio, who defaulted for ?31,000, was arrested in Toronto, but compromised with the county for $12,000 and was released. The Knoxville (Tenn.) College for Colored Men has been closed on account of an epi- | demic of typhoid fever. Thirty of the -50 j students are ill and two deaths have oc- J curred. A reception' in honor of President and j Mrs. Cleveland was given at St. Augustine j during their trip to Florida. From St. Augustine the party visited Falatka and took a j sail on the Indian River. A visit was also I paid to the Exposition at Sanford, after i which the party returned to Washington, making a short stop at Charleston, S. C., where it was received by the Mayor and a committee of prominent citizens, and there was a procession. The body of Miss Louise Deltimore, aged twentj'-four, who mysteriously disappeared from Sissonville, \Y Va., last October, has been found in the Poco River, near her home. A tornado destroyed numerous buildings I and dirt considerable damage in Vanderberg and Gibson counties, Ind. Gcstave Winkler, a fresco artist, of Milwaukee, Wis., murdered his wife in the presence of their three infant children, and then j committed suicide. Deputy Sheriff McCoy, was attacked at : E[ Cuero ranch, near Brownsville, Texas, by five bandits. He killed four of them and seriously wounded the other. Lee Wells and George Urquhart. two young newsboys, quarreled at Houston, Texas, over their papers, when Urquhart drew a revolver and killed his companion. Wesley Willis, a youn? man of Chattanooga, Tenn., had a trivial quarrel with a neighbor and fled when three 'policemen attempted to arre3t him. They fired, killing him, and the officers had to be locked up to prevent citizens from Ijuching them. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, consented to a strike of the 1,(500 engineers and firemen employed on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the company having refused the employes' demands for a uniform wages tariff of three and a half cents per mile on all its lines. Mrs. McNulty gave birth to three children at Winchester, Ohio, making five in fourteen months. All are alive. Colonel E. B. C. Cash, the famous Smith Hnrolinn rlnplist", is flnnd. Great enthusiasm prevails among the oiti- ! zensof Birmingham, Ala., because a proofs I bos been discovered for making steel out of | Birmingham ore. The Deaf and.Dumb Institution at Fulton, ; Mo., was totally "destroyed by fire, causing a ! loss to the State of $500,000. The professors I rucceeded in rescuing all of the 185 pupils i from the burning structure. The official vote for Congressman in the I Eleventh District of Michigan is as follows: Breen, Democrat, 10,61:2; Seymour, Repub- ! lican, 11.010; Steele, Prohibitionist, 530. . Seymour's plurality is 398. A very severe blizzard visited the eastern ! shore of Virginia, resulting in much damage ; to boats and buildings. At Clinton, Ky., Sam Price, a white man I who killed the Sheriff, and Bill Reams I (colored', who shot a farmer named Jackson, j who had caught him in the act of robbing a I hen roost, were taken out of jail by a mob of i fifty masked men and hanged. J. H. Miller and wife, of Fair Haven, | Minn., locked up their three children and ; went to church. During their absence the ' lantern exploded, burning to death the three ' children, aged seven, ten and thirteen, and destroyingthe house. At a merrymaking in HilLsboro, Ohio, two young girls "dressed as ghosts burst in upon ?l T.. V Inline o,wl I tiic (JOity. f uui juuiik lauics lamtcu cviiv* , two of them?Misses I)ora E. Akins and Lizzie Chaney?hopelessly lost their reason. Washington. "Phb bill prohibiting newspapers contain j ing lottery advertisements from transmission i through the mails was defeated in the House j Committee on Post Offices. The vote stood ! 7 against the bill and 0 for it. The expenses of the British Fisheries Com- | mission in Washington were ?1!?,000. Washington is suffering from an epi- j demic of measles that threatens to close up some of the executive departments for a while, owing to a lack of clerical force. The funsral of the dead philanthropist W. W. Corcoran, at his late residence in ; Washington, was simple and devoid of all ' ostentation, although a vast concourse of i people collected to do his memory honor. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: John E. Carland, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of the j Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota; | Moses J. Liddell. of Louisiana, to be Asso- | ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana: Lucius B. Nash, of ; Washington Territory,to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington. The Senate, in executive session, has con- i firmed the following nominations: R. D. j Gwydir to be Indian agent at the Colville : agency, Washington Territory: T. J. Moreno to be United States Marshal, Southern dis- i trict of Florida, and E. H. I.acombe, of New i York, to be an additional circuit judge for ' the Second Judicial district of theLnited ; States. 1 Foreign. A syndicate of French, Belgian and J Dutch bankers has advanced a loan of $30,- | 030,000 to Russia, refusing the request of the | Czar for a larger sum unless tho Bulgarian question was settled peacefully. Heavy snowstorms have prevailed throughout Europe, causing a general stoppage of traffic. Choi.era has been raging in Valparaiso, ChilL There were 1,288 cases, out Of which 044 resulted fataliy. Gideon Nye, United States Consul at Can- I ton, and the oldest foreign resident in the ! Chinese Empire, is dead. He had amassed ' fC,000,000. During a panic, caused by a false alarm of i fire in a synagogue at Warsaw, Russia, four i women were killed and sixteen other persons j badly crushed. Eleven hundred and twenty-four ' houses, including one temple, were destroyed j recently by fire at Yokohama, Japan. i hk puouc stores, a warenouse, a iaciory, several lnmber vards, and .r>00 houses have been destroyed by fire at Hanoi, Tonquin. Ten Chinese and one European were killed. Kobert Weil, who on January 13, IS 87 murdered Prison Guard John Rutledge at the Toronto Central Prison, where Neil wasserv I ing a term on a charge of larceny, has I been hanged in the jail yard at Toronto, j Canada. Two officers have been arrested at Staraza- j gora, Bulgaria, for high treason. It is be- I lieved that Prince Ferdinand will be com- j pelled to sanction their execution. There has been a panic in Russian mone- | tary circles, and stock prices were lower than j for fifty years. Several banks failed during the crisis. An epidemic of virulent scarlatina and measles is raging at Queenstown, Australia. All of the public schools have been closed. There have been five deaths daily on an average during the prevalence of the disease. Heavy snow storms in England and Italy have seriously interfered with traffic. 'V'" ">";-*Jv. EncTinesr CaRtaoa shot and killed Surgeon Birt, in Greytown, Nicaragua. He t>.en leaped out of the window and was killed on the pavement below. Both men were members of the American Nicaragua Canal Expedition Corps. The village of Valtosta, Italy, has been | half buried by an avalanche, and troops j have been ordered to the scene of the disaster to assist in disinterring the dead. Twen- I ty-three bodies have been recovered. The Spanish Senate, by a vote of 122 to 52, approved a bill establishing trial by jury. Mayor O'Briek, of Cork,Ireland, who has been suffering imprisonment for assaulting the police, was given a grand ovation upon the occasion of his release. LATER NEWS. a mutiny occurcd at Philadelphia on board | the British steamer, Trenton, in which three : sailors were fatally injured, and a number of j others severely hurt. j The counting of the money in the Sub- | Treasury at New York for the purpose of j ' placing Treasurer McCue in charge has been i commenced. About ?lo9,000,000 will pass , i through the hands of the counters, and it j will keep them btisy four weeks. The Rov. Dr. W. H. Ward, editor of tho New York Independent, was crushed b> a < truck, four ribs being broken and there J being a slight concussion of the brain. Fire at Salamanca, N. Y., destroyed the opera house, postoffice and twenty other buildings. Masked robbers stole $4,000 from the express car on the St Louis, Arkansas and Poilitnorl nflflr Pin A RlllfT- Ark. Tom Forsythe, son of tho Sheriff of Panola County, Texas, has been lynched for the unprovoked murder of County Treasurer Hill, which he had confessed. The walls of a large hotel in process of erection at Kansas City, Mo., caved in, kill- 1 ing three men and injuring five seriously. The total receipts of the Government for February were $31,422,883, and the total expenditures $10,424,026, being a net gain for the month of $11,898,257. After deducting interest payments there will remain about $6,500,000, which will represent the actual decrease in the public debt for the month. Two delegations of Chippewa Indians from Wisconsin have gone on a visit to Washing ton. One of the delegations came to urge i the settlement of a-claim for $118,000, said to | be due them for lands surrendered to the Government The other delegation came to protest against the interference in the matter of the disposition of their timber. The will of the late W. W. Corcoran leaves an estate valued at $3,030,000, divided mainly among his two nephews and nieca. The Louise Home gets $50,000, and the Corcoran Art Gallery $100,00D. OUR MILITARY STRENGTH, The United States Have Eijjht Million Men Available. According to the latest returns received at the War Department and sent to Congress by the Secretary of War, says a Washington dispatch to the New York Times, the total number of men in the United States avail?W? fnr miliharv dutv is S.0:21.G15. exclusive of those in the regular army. Of this number 10(>,837 are enrolled in the militia forces of the various States and Territories. The remaining 7,9130,70S are able-bodied malo citizens of the United States over 18 years of age and under 4j years, who are liable to be called upon under the law to perform military service. This number is as nearly exact as possible in the absence of definite reports from the Adjutant-General of a number of States. Where these reports have not been received careful estimates have been made in the office of Adjutant-General Drum. The number of men in the organized militia is more easily got at, and the figure given is substantially correct New \ ork heads the list of States in the number of enrolled militiamen, having more than 4,(KK) more troops than Pennsylvania, which stands second on the list. The following table shows the number of enrolled militiamen in each State, including commissioned and non-com missioned officers and privates in the cavalry, artillery, and infantry branches of the service: Organized, j Organized Slates. Strength. I State*. Strength. New York 12.63*; Loulsana 1,916 Pennsylvania 8,367 j Kansas 1,800 Ohio 5,694 | Minnesota 1,747 Massachusetts 4,751 I Mississippi 1,525 South Carolina.... 4,457 ! Missouri 1,447 Georgia 4,3X1 Tennessee 1,374 New Jersey 3,981 Kentucky 1,317 Illinois 3,S61 New Hampshire.. 1,279 California 3,794 Rhode Island 1,263 Virginia. 2,961 Nebraska 1,217 Texas 2 5S6 ; Colorado I,?u Connecticut. 2,524 North Carolina... 1,196 Iowa 2,417 j Maine 1,041 Michigan 2,31)8 Vermont 790 Alabama 2,3<".5 Florida 701 Indiana 2.283 j Delaware 571 Wisconsin 2.188 j Nevada 559 Mainland 1,947 J West Virginia..... 233 Total 94,736 No returns were received from Oregon and Arkansas, and tbeir forces are not included in these figures. To the organized forces of the States the Territories add 04,0^3 men and the District of Columbia 1,41-S. The grand aggregate of the organized militia strength oF the whole country is, therefore, 10J,&>7. New Mexico heads the Territories in the number of militiamen, its strength being 1,670, of whom 1,401 are cavalrymen. Dakota follows, with 1.014, all but 49 of whom are infantrymen. Washington has 5)13, Montana 57t>, and Arizona 50 i. There are no returns from Idaho, Utah or Wyoming. Included in the total of 100,857 are 80,0.?3 infantrymen, .0,091 artillerymen, and 5,695 cavalrymen. They are commanded by 1,297 corhmissioned officers. The returns from Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Mississippi give only tha totals for all arms, aggregating 7,461. How many of these are in ianirymen, cavalrymen, or aruiicrvmcu ? not known. New York also leads all the States in the number of able-bodied men available for military duty not in the organized militia. An emergency call in that State would bring out (i50,000 men. Pennsylvania stands second in this respect, as it doss in the organized militia, but, as will be seen by the following table, the relative standing of the States as to organized and unorganized strength varies greatly: Vnorgan- L'nnrgan i:ed i:ed State*. Strength. States. Strength, Ne,wYork 650,000 California. 14*.,0?l Pennsylvania 679,000 i Minn sota 145,OH) Indiana 403,000 i Mississippi 140.000 Ohio 450,000 Louisiana 1?,S,4S9 1?> io*. n in Illinois. V'w *tiaryiauu IV Kentucky 325,000 Arkansas 123,000 Missouri 320,000 South Carolina.. .115,000 Texas 300,000 Nebraska 105,281 Massachusetts 596.025 Maine 93,449 Wisconsin 256.2S9 West Vircirtia.... 85,000 New Jersey 284,8S7 Connecticut 81,C94 Tennessee. 262,801 Colorado 54,118 Michigan 255,000 llhode Island.... 47,<>00 Iowa 225,905 Vermont 44,163 Kansas 212.359 Florida 42,300 Georgia 200,000 Delaware 38,200 Virginia 200,0iK) Oregon 3"',000 North Carolina...170,000 New Hampshire.. 25.0U0 Alabama 150,000 Nevada 11,*>42 Total T,?7i.681 In addition to this number the Territories furnish 205,800, and the District of Columbia 41,280, making the entire number of unorganized men available for military duty 7,t>20,768, and the grand aggregate of available men in and out of the militia force 8,021, uuo, UciKoia jeuus mo imiiuri? m mo number of unorganized available men. it being credited with 85,000; New Mexico has 27, 000; Montana, 20,809; Utah, 22,(KM); Arizona, 15,000; Idaho, 18,000; Washington, 10,IKK), and Wyoming, 7,00J Indians, which ranks third in unorganized strength with her 505,000 men, drops to sixteenth in organized strength, her militia numbering only 2,289. Ohio retains nearly the same place on each list, ranking fourth in available men, and third in enrolled militia. Massachusetts also makes an excellent showing from a military point of view, rising from ninth in the unorganized list to fourth in organized strength. The most noteworthy showing of all the States is made by South Carolina, whose 115,000 available men place her twenty-sixth in point of available strength, while her 4,457 militiamen take her up to the fifth rank in organized forces. An opposite showing is made by West Virginia, which stands above nine States in her unorganized strength, but 3 brings up the rear in the column of enrolled 1 militia. < *' T-. :!>''J' ' ' ' '. ' * 1 '.* . ANOTHER BIG STRIKE. Engineers and Firemen on the C., B. & Q. R. R. Quit Work. More than 25,000 Men Affected By the Tie-up. A great strike of 1,000 engineers and 1,000 firemen on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad system began promptly in Chicago and other points at 4 o'clock Monday morning. Precisely at Al7 "WATlt iflfcO th8 LllttU UUUI oniuvu wugiitw , round-house at Chicago. Three others soon followed it, and the engineers and firemen quit work. The strike was on in earnest, and all the switch engines started for the round house. Just before the time appointed for the strike Train Master S. T. Pope issued an order that no trains should be moved west of Chicago. This was regarded as a confession that the company had not obtained men to take the place of the strikers. The trike affected about 25,000 men employed on the whole system in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin, embracing 5,5U0 miles of road. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, announced that the men would run mail cars, but no other cars must be attached to them, and they would not prevent other men'from taking places. At St. Louis about forty engineers and firemen notified the manager that they would not resumo their places on their engines of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Kailroad Monday morning, and they were joined by the platform men and brakemen. They 6aid this was in compliance with an order from Chief Arthur, tne cause of which was known to the officials. They further stated that no opposition would be made to men filling their places, nor would any obstruction to the movement of trains be sanctioned by their body. The shut-down at Aurora, 111., was comElete. All operatibns ceased even before the our set for the strike. Several trains came in just previous to four o'clock and as they arrived in the yards one by one, each was quietly abandoned by the trainmen. The early mail train from Chicago had gone through on time, and when the appointed moment came for the strike nothing was stirring and the company's premises were silent as a cemetery. A Tr??? PaoIt TclonH rnoH Hn/1 AU i\audaa V>iujr buo +***%*,** .vm ..v^. quietly put some Chicago, Burlington and Quincy cars in its freight trains with the apparent intention of helping the latter road in its freight business Monday afternoon. The Rock Island engineers on discovering this became furious and every engine in the yard was pulled into the round-house, leaving a score or more of freight trains on the track. The firemen joined in the movement, and the consequence was for a time a total tie-up of the Rock Island's freight traffic. The Executive Board of D. A. 24, K. of L., at Chicago, adopted a proclamation to the members of Assembly, in which reference was made to the reports that theK. of L. engineers were to take the places of the strikers as a retaliatory step. The assembly protested against any of its members taking the places of the strikers and concluded: "if the members of the Brotherhood have ever been guilty of any wrong toward our order, this wrong cannot be righted by committing another. Let no Knight fire an engine or pull a throttle on the Chicago, Burlington onH OMinov." During the first day of the strike there wore two bad smasb-ups on the road, owing to the attempt to run trains with green hands. In one accident three postal clerks were badly injured; in the other two express employes and a master mechanic were dangerously, if not mortally, hurt. The chief depots or round-houses of tbe road are located at Aurora and Galesburg, 111.; Ottumwa, Burlington and Creston, la.; Lincoln, Omaha and McCook, Neb. These cities are at the ends of working divisions of the road. Should the strike long continue, says a Chicago dispatch, it is probable that in ad- | dition to the 1,400 men directly involved, the great majority of the 14,000 employes of the company will be thrown out of work, the 25,000 members of th3 Engineers' Brotherhood throughout the couutry called upon to contribute of their savings, and the industries of a vast section of country tributary to the road subjected to a'partial paralysis. The far-reaching effects of the strike can be inferred from the fact that the road has 6,000 miles of main and leased lines gridironing the States of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri ana Nebraska. From Chicago it reaches to Denver, Col., over 1,000 miles away, and Cheyenne, Wy. Ty., equally far. Minneapolis to the north and St Louis to the south are within its reach. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY, Two Officers Killed in the Discharge of Their Duty. A desperate family quarrel has resulted in a terrible tragedy near Jeromeville, Ashland County, Ohio. Lewis Chesrown is | worth $15,000. He has six grown sons. Latel the old man was adjudged an imbecile, and his son Lewis succeeded j in being appointed his guardian. He and j his brother reter planned to have their own j way, and John, Elias and the other two sons ! became desperate. Lewis kept the old man J carefully guarded at his house and forbade the other four to see him. A short time ago the four watched until Lewis left his house, and then kid napped the old man, maltreating his j aged wife, who protested. Lewis and Peter I went to law on habeas corpus proceed- i ings. They were met in court by their four brothers and a decision was not reached until a few days ago. IV. H. ICelley, a constable of Jeromeville, was intrusted with the | writ, He chose Jacob Helbert as his de- j puty, and accompanied by a dozen other j men went out to John's house, whither ! the four brothers had taken the old gentle- j man. The constable and his posse found the -? 1 -??A(><of on/) fVinv warn rA- I Droniers uisposou iu icmou oi.va . _ fused admittance. The crowd took a heavy timber and knocked down the door. At this point Elias appeared crazed with anger. He had a double barrelled shotgun, j with which he shot Helbert in the head j and Kelley in the bowels. Helbert j was instantly killed. The posse retreated J and two of the brothers seized Kelley and j dragged him into the house. Men ran ; to Jeromeville for reinforcements. I The brothers saw the danger, and Elias got on a horse anil rode to | Ashland, where he surrendered at the jail. A | mob came back from Jeromeville, but when | told that Elias had gone paid attention to | Keny, WHO Clieu in u. ami! u uin In the evening Sheriff Andi ess lodged tho ! other three brothers in jail. There was ! some disposition on tho port of tho mob to i go to Ashland and lynch Elias, but as it 1 is ten miles distant cooler counsels proTailed. Elias, who did all the shooting, is single and twenty eight years old. He is a graduate of the Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio, and has followed civil engineering. INDIAN TERRITORY. All Intruders to Bo I^Jccted Within Ninety Days. There is great rejoicing in the Indian Territory over a late decision of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the efloct that the Cherokees have tho exclusive right to decide who - j?; I are ana wno arc not mcir ciu/ivno. . cision virtually settles tho long-mooted ques- | tion which has been bunging 'iro in the Do- j partment, and on account of heing unsettled | this nation has almo.-t l?o -ome overrun with j intruders claiming Indian blO'jd, whom Cherokees would not recognize as such. This late ruling of tho Commissioner has j produced widespread consternation among the intruders. They are organizing and de- j Glaring that they will not recugnizo tho decision of the Cherokee Court. The Cherokee i Commission on Citizenship i-< now summoning all intruders to appear before it at a specified time and show cause why they remain in the nation in defiance of law, and if they refuse to appear, as a great many will who have been there for a dozen or more years and have valuable improvements, the Commission will decide against and give them ninety days to disposa of or soil their property to citizens. If they do not act accordingly they will be summarily ejected from the nation. Carrie Lkitz, a girl burglar at Bay City, j Mich., received probably fatal injuries yea- i terday in trying to escape from jail by means I a rope of bea quilts. ' SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedings. 44th Day?A resolution was adopted requesting information from the President as to the prohibition of American products from importation into France, and what correspondence had taken place with regard to a participation in the Paris Exposition.....Mr. Manderson spoko at length on tbe bill grantj uig pensions to ex-soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated from the performance of ! manual labor, and providing for pensions to J dependent relatives of deceased soldiers ;and sailors....The rest of the session was consumed by the consideration of executive business. | 45th Day.?A bill was introduced to estab| lish a Court of Patent Appeals.... The con| sideration of the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was begun, and after the numerous amendments to the bill had all been rejected, it was passed by a vote of 38 to 15....The consideration of Kill YV7QQ ffllfOTl nn cijo iuuc^liutitu |a/llotvu Milt cwu vwuvii u|/. 4T.th Day.?The following bills were introduced: Authorizing the issue of circulating notes to National banks to the par value of bonds deposited therefor; to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the Territories except for medical, scientific and mechanical purposes: for the relief of j sane persons confined in insaue asylums.... Mr. Paddock spoke in condemnation of the Western Postal Service.... A bill appropriating *1,200,000 for a public building in New Orleans was passed... .The Senate went into executive session. 47th Day.?A bill was introduced to so amend the immigration laws that no persons of the Chinese race, without regard to the Government to which the Chinese may owe allegiance, and without regard to the port, j place or country from which he or she may | come to the United States,shall be allowed to ! land A resolution was introduced urging j the President to make a treaty with the Emj peror- of China containing a provision that ' fvi?ll anfam ilia ttnifah no l/lliliese muvicio aua.ii ouuvt uuw vu*wa? States; laid over A resolution was passed for an inquiry into the advisability of having seven or eight townships of the public domain, surrounding ana including Mount ! Hood, Oregon, set apart as a national park .... A resolution was offered to annul patents for certain lands which were issued by the Secretary of the Interior without due authority.... The bill to establish a National Art Commission was passed....The bill for the compulsory education of Indian children was passed. House Proceedings. 49th Day.?The bill imposing penalties for inflicting injuries on submarine cables was passed.... TTie Senate bill was passed removing the quarantine station from Ship Island, Mississippi A bill was introduced to repeal the tax on fruit brandy... /The majority report of the Elections Committee was made confirming the title of Davidson to his seat from the Fourth Alabama District; the minority report in favor of McDuffle was also laid before the House ... Mr. S. S. Cox, Speaker pro tem., presented in the House a monster petition signed by 25,000 merchants and citizens of New York city and Brorklyn | in behalf of favorable action for the letter i carriers and postal clerks' bills which are pending^ _ _ 50th Day, ?The House went into Committee of the Whole and the consideration of appropriations for public buildings was begun. An appropriation of $75,000 to complete the building at Chattanooga, Tenn., was made. $240,000 were allowed to erect a building at J Buffalo, N. Y. The bill appropriating $1,500,000 for a public building at Omaha was | the subject of a lengthy attack by Mr. Bland | on the custom of erecting useless and unnecessary structures at public expense. 51st Day.?The following bills and resolutions were introduced and referred: Calling I on the President for information as to what steps have been taken to prevent tbe continued immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States; requesting information as to [ the exportation of sugars from the port of New \ ork and the classification of the same; j granting pensions to persons disabled in the Life-saving service; calling on the Commissioner of Agriculture for information as to I the forests of the Rocky Mountains; for the | protection of fishermen,requiring vessel owners, under a penalty of $o03, to equip every fishing dory with a compass and sufficient food and water to last the crew two weeks; a joint resolution proposing the amendments ' to the Constitution by which April 30 shall ! hereafter be substituted for March 4 as the beginning and termination of the official terms of the President and Vice President; and December 31 for March 4 as the beginning and termination of th?- official terms of the Senators and of the members of the Dant.fleanfof.ivac f.lio Pnno-rocc fn XIUUSO Ul AVCpi wvuvww* Vu, vuv wv.?&.www ? meet on the first Monday in January... .Mr. Wilson took the floor and offered a 'testimonial of respect fdr the late W. W. Corcoran, which was unanimously ordered spread upon the journal of the House. 52d Day.?The consideration of the bill for the organization of Oklahoma Territory was begun A bill was passed providing for a utilization of the hot water running to I waste at Hot Springs Reservation....The | House then went into Committee of the j Whole on public building measures. The bill | appropriating $500,000 for a site for a public j building at Omaha, Neb., "was agreed to, | with an amendment reducing the appropriation to MOO,000. The appropriation of j $50,000 for a public building at Bar Harbor, Maine, was reduced to $25,000 after a lively debate. rr,?~ Vm'11 ..^AnrioHno-41 HOO fnr niipphflfifl llicuilia(j|jiupim....6,.,.,?., , of a site and erection of a fire-proof appraiser's warehouse, New York city, was passed Bills were also agreed to, increasing to $300,000 the cost of the building at Charleston, S. C.; appropriating $100,000 for an interstate building at Texarkana, and $100,000 for a building at Columbus, Ga., and appropriating $-K)0,000 for a building at Milwaukee, Wis. 53d Day.?Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, rising to a question of personal privilege, denied that he had said, as was intimated in certain newspapers, that it was policy for the Republican party to obstruct the passage of a tariff measure.... A bill was reported to secure to actual settlers the public lands adapted to agriculture and to protect the forests on the public domain ? The House, in Committee of the Whole, considered the bill for using the surplus to purchase bonds .. .The Blair bill as well as the many House bills similar to it in scope were referred to a sub-committee composed of Messrs. Crain, Buckalew, Cobb, Pennington, O'Donnell, Russell, White and Candler. FATAL EXPLOSION. A Number of People Killed on a California Ferry Boat. A disastrous explosion occurred at South Vallejo, Cal., on the ferry steamer Julia, plying between South Vallejo and Vallejo Station. The steamer was about to leave her moorings a few minutes after <5 o'clock, and had about seventy persons on board, many of whom were going across the strait to work in the lumber yards on the other side. Just as the deck hands were hauling in the lines there was a loud explosion and a sheet of flame shot into the air. Those who were on dock were hurled overlioard, and killed outright by being struck by pieces of the debris, which was sent flying in all directions. The names of nearly half the jjassengers who won. on fclm steamer at the time of the explo sion aru not known, which makes it impossible to tell hovr many sunk with the wreck, but at least fifteen who are known to have been on tho steamer are still missing:. Captain tiedge of the Julia was severely injured, as was also Charles lleath, the pilot. T welve others wore also very severely injured. Soon after theexplosion occurred the steamer had burned to tho water's edjro, and sunk to tho bottom with a ureat number of the victims buried under the debris in the cabin. It is believed that between thirty and forty lives wero lost. Up to a Into hour twelve bodies had been recovered, two of which had been burned beyond recognition. The steamer burned petroleum for fuel. Vallejo is thirty-nine miles up the bay from San Francisco. HIS MIND MADE UP, Mr. Blaine Again Declares He Is Out of the Presidential Race. The New York World publishes a Jong interview with James G. Blaine at Florence, Italy, on his recent letter withdrawing his name as a candidate for the Presidential nomination. Mr. Blaino reiterates his determination not to bo a candidate, and says that under no circumstance will he permit his name to be used at the National Republican Convention. He savs that the decision is the result of careful thought, and was long since determined on. i ' " v- " 11 - .j BUTCHERED AND BUENED. Eight Colored Men Meet a Horrible Death. The Sanguinary Work of Texas Desperadoes, One of the bloodiest crimes that ever darkened the pages of the history of Texas has been enacted at Spanish Camp, a small settlement on the Colorado River, in Wharton counj fcy, about sixty-five miles southeast of Houston. I The Spanish Camp neighborhood is rich in farming lands, but inhabited mostly by negroes and Mexicans, the proportion of whites being very small. The plaoe lies about miclway between the Victoria division of the Southern Pacific road and San Antonio and Arkansas Pass road, and as a consequence is somewhat remote from telegraph stations. The nearest point is Wharton, the county seat, about fifteen miles away. The first intimation received of the tragedy was through Frank Wilson, a bright young colored man who resides in Houston, and who has, until recently, had charge ! of a school a few miles from the scene of the frightful crime. According to Wilson the prologue of the bloody drama was probably enacted in the office of a Justice of the Peace in Wharton. The rich and productive land occupied by seven or eight male negroes was in litigation. The other parties to the suit were white men, who wished to oust the colored people and gain possession of the best portion of Spanish I Camp. The suit was gained by the colored I defendants, and thoy were told that they might go and enjoy tneir possessions. Their counsel imformed them that no further barrier existed to prevent them from going to their homes and remaining there. Accord| inerly they mounted their horses and started I for the Spanish Camp. That evening the j majority of the little cavalcade saw the sunj set for tne last time. It was feared in Wharton that trouble would ensue between the litigants in the lawI suit,but the actual shedding of blood was not j contemplated. A dozen or more unknown j men crept up to the double cabin about midnight and surrounded the rude dwelling with | piles of wood, over which kerosene oil had j been liberally poured, The inmates of the cabin were sleeping soundly when they were aroused by the roar of flames and found j themselves surrounded by a circle of fire, j Dazed and hardly knowing what they were doj ing,they broke through the doorway and windows when the crack of Winchesters and the heavy reports of shotguns mingled with the ' noise of the flames. Five of the terror | stricken negroes fell dead, riddled with bul| lets. A sixth escaped in the bush sorely wounded and two boys, too frightened to do anything, remained in the cabin and were roasted to death. The wounded man managed to get a horse and was making off toward Wharton I when he was fired upon. He reached WharI ton on foot, his horse having fallen from bul; let wounds. He informed Sheriff Jones of the tragedy. The Sheriff and a posse at once started out The wounded negro was taken in charge by friends and remains j hidden. No other eye-witnesses can be found I to tell further particulars. Nothing remains but the charred logs of the cabin and the j bones of the two boys. The five slain men were buried by the sheriffs posse. ST, LOUIS ON JUNE 5. rrimn on<1 Plnfn n# ?ll? Vfltlnnfll Democratic Convention. The National Democratic Committee as sembled in Washington on Wednesday for ! the purpose of fixing a time and place for the | National Convention to nominate candidates ' for President and Vice-President A full Committee was present, all the office-holding members being represented by proxies. A ballot resulted in tne naming of July 3 as the j date for the Convention. Then several bal! lots were taken for the place without result, j the leading candidates being San Fran* ! cisco, Chicago and St. Louis, with the firstJ named city in the lead. The Committee j finally adjourned to the following day withI out coming to a conclusion. On Wednesday St Louis was made the : unanimous choice of the Committee on the j second ballot, and the date for holding the ; Convention was changed, by a vote of 29 to 1 17 f/i .Tiim 5. He Republican National Convention will i be held at Chicago on June 19. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Mary Anderson seta the hair-dressing fashions in London. A fair young American named Gulzwiller i has sung in Paris with success. "a Midsummer Night's Dream" is drawI Ing crowded houses at Daly's New York i Theatre. j There are 4,000 theatres in the United States, and $1,000,000 a day is paid for ! amusements in this country. ! Emma Abbott, the singer, is said to have a fortune of $300,000, which she has accumu! lated during the last ten years. ! The Boston Ideals and M11& Zelie de Lustan recently presented an attractive series of ! operas at Niblo's, New York city. Representative Crisp, of Georgia, used to be an actor. His father, mother, brother : and two sisters were also on the stage. ' Mrs. Colman was the first English public ? * ?J MAnl> a? Tonfho | acrress. one periormtu lua uai u u* | In Davenant's "Siege in Rome" in 1656. i Mlle. Nikita, the 16 year old American j prima donna discovered by Strakosch, baa been engaged to sing at Berlin next summer, j Charles Crozvt Converse has added I another to the list of American nat.'ona) i anthems. The new one is called "God for Us." [ Edwin Booth carries a 120,000 accident j policy since he began to travel so extensive' ly, and the beneficiary is his grandchild livi ing in Boston. Grace Henderson has been engaged for a I laadiitg role in "A Possible case," to be done | at the Union Square Theatre, New York City, after "The Henrietta." Francis "Wilson is negotiating for a theatre in London in which to bring out "The Lady and the Tiger'' simultaneously !i.L Vstwls rti*Ain 'flOfl Willi 11/3 .1C>T 1UII1 Fiva<i,..v.. It is said that Florence Girard Abbey, of Wallack's, New York, will retire from the stage. She is to accompany her husband on a pleasure trip to the Bermudas. Augustin' Daly, the New York manager, goes abroad early this year. He and his company sail for England on the 14th of April. Ho will visit London, Paris and Berlin. Patti had a tremendous ovation in Madrid In "Linda di Chamounix." The stalls were from ?(> to f 30, the occasion beinjj the fortyfifth anniversary of her birth, which took place in Madrid. Thk sum of $3,800 contributed by sympathisers with Miss Nelha Wetherill, tne actress whose foot was recently amputated, has been handed to her by Maud Harrison and Minnie Conway Tearle, who had charge of the subscriptions. A Bkrli.v artist, Ernst Tepper, claims to | have devised a method of securing incombus| tible scenery for theatres. Instead of canvas j he uses fine wire gauze and covers it with a I peculiar kind of paste, which makes a good material for painting. Miss Lillian Olcott has commenced a j suit agaiast the Franco-American Dramatic | Agency for $20,000 for allowing Bernhardt j to play "Theodora" in New York city, after they had sold her the exclusive American j rights for a large sura of money. ~ i ? S. R. Johnson, ut Orpaha, was given a i chance a I ew years ago to buy the Coronodo 1 Islands, in Sail D 'igo Bay, for $75,00 ), but | refused it, and they were sold to a syndicate soon after for $110,000 The syndicate has I sincrf sold $2,s00,<)00 worth of lots from the I ^ ?j i._i j_ 4i(i /Mm oon I truc'l uiui mu uuitiiil'u in nmu ?? >v, William Makepeace Howe, a descend- j ant of the British Gen. Howe, who fought in our Revolutionary War, is herding cattle on j a ranch in Dakota. His distinguished ancestry is no assistance to hiin in his business, and he has difficulty in making ends meet. 1'iie Association of Chambers of Commerce of Great Britain have passed a resolution advocating an arbitration treaty with the United States for the settlement of all difliculties between this country and Enslnn.1. Daniel Dane Bidwell, of Hardford. a Yale graduate of 18Sli, has sailed for the Bahamas to find Capt. Kidd's gold. He has a chart inherited from his grandfather, wbo -eceived it from a dying: sailor. NEWS! GLEANINGS, Russia wants to resume specie payments. The 8cx*ety Islands want to be annexed to Prance. Professor Swift, the finest linguist in Canada, is insane The Indian tribes in Winnipeg are suffering terrible distress. m. de Brazza thinks that Stanley has * <*> joined Emin Bey, in Africa. A bright ten-year-old girl is a page in tha 1 Iowa House of Representatives. The English Government declares that it medidates no attack upon Venezuela Australia does not favor th? trans-Pacific cable between Auckland and San Francisco. Two thousand persons are reported to hav? : ' Deen Kiuea oy an earcnquajie in toe pruviuvar of Yunnan, China. It is alleged that fatal blunders have been ; sfide in the construction of th3 Lick Ob- . t lervatory in California. | -1 St. Paul railroad capitalists are talking . of bridging Behring Strait and running a [ line straight through to China. v< It is estimated that 50,000 head of stock perished in the Navajo country alone during the severe storms of the winter. A terrible dynamite explosion took plao* at Duluth, Minn., recently. Six men wer? fatally injured and three othera badly hurt. Peter Shandreau, of Napanee, Ontario,, provoked at his wife's joining the Salvation Army, fatally shot her and then killed himself! Walace Ross, the American oarsman,, defeated George Bubear, for the championship of England, on the Thames River, win ""'6 "J Montreal, which started the craze for tobogganing, has this year but two toboggan slides, and one of them will soon close. Last year there were nine slides in full blast. A new disease, which the doctors call winter cholera, is epidemic in Minneapolis and Cleveland. Three thousand people nave been / afflicted with it during trie past twc months. C. R. Teed, a Chicago faith healer, will b* called upon to answer for criminal malpractice in treating F. Benedict by the laying onof hands, as the patient has died of bronchial' pneumonia Josie Holmes has been released from jail at Cincinnati, the court having granted ? nolle prosequi in the matter or the indictment found against her because of her pari of the Fidelity Bank affair. A Hungarian miner who was recently treated by a physician at Phoenixville,Fenn., had been living for three months at an expense for food of only 2 cents a day. He wasearning a dollar a day, but at9 only black: bread. As a consequence his teeth were falling out when the physicim began to treathim and he was slowly starving. Twentt saloon keepers, of County Cork, Ireland, were summoned to answer charge* of boycotting the police. Nine went to prison' and eleven were released on pledge of supplying liquor to the police. Then tne townsfolk bovcotted the eleven, who were obliged by nnVilir* nnnrobrinm to withdraw their oro:nr fse? and ask for a month in jail instead/ PROMINENT PEOPLE, Oscar Wilde has cut off his ringlets an<f discarded Knickerbockers. Dr. Patton has formally accepted th? presidency of Princeton College The late Professor Asa Gray, the great: botanist, was a firm believer in the science of evolution. Mr. Carlisle is said to dress with moretaste than any man who has occupied the- ~~ Speaker's chair. Painting, and the reading of English religious literature are the chief occupation* of the Queen of Sweden. Senator Farwell, of Illinois, has an income of $700 a day. It is not many year* since he was working for $8 a month. The Standard Oil men of Russia are tha Noble Brothers, who are said to be worth , $400,000,003. Their income is greater than, the Czar's. Probably the richest newspaper man in. the world is Mr. Abell, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, whose fortune is estimated at$20,000,000. , ^ 4 General Joseph Bates recently died at . his home in Brazoria, Texas,aged eighty-nine years. He served with distinction in tha Seminole war. General William H. Gibson, the silvertongue J Republican orator, is now a regularly ordained minister in the Methodist ?j{J10WUyai V/ilUi General Sherman always chews his cigars '. half way before he lights them and takes a full half of his excellent Havana in what is known as a "dry smoke." General Allen Thomas, coiner of the ' mint of New Orleans, comes, according to the Picayune, almost up to one's ideal of what is called manly beauty. Senator Hearst, of California, is interested in nearly all the principal gola mines in the West, and is said not to hare lost a dollar in his mining investments in fifteen years. Senator Stanford's wife has the largest collection of diamonds,posses.?ed by any lady now in Washington. Among them are four sets that belonged to the late Queen Isabella, J of Spain. x rii uuko of Newcasoie, ni on a visit this country, is only five feet high, wears acork leg, limps badly when he walks, and is altogether very unpreposessing in appearance. But he has an income of a million a year, owns the famous blue diamond, which; is worth one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars, and is considered a great "catch'' in society. THE MARKETS. 9 NEW YORK. Beef, good to prime..." 8 <? 8$f Calves, common to prime.... 6 @ 9 Bheep 5 06#@ 5 50 Lames 5 00 @ 7 00 Hogs?Live 5 50 @ 5 60 Dressed 7 <$ 7^ Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 40 @ 4 75 West, good to choice 3 90 @ 4 90 Wheat?No. 2 Red 89>?@ 89Jf Rye?State 56 @ 5S Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 59% (g fiO Oats?White State 38 @ 38V Mixed Western 87 @ 40 rr 85 /a 90 naj'?iUCU. W -Straw?No. 1, Rye 1 00 @ 1 05 Lard?City Steam 7 65 @ 7 90 Butter?State Creamery.... 22 @ 23% Dairy 23 @ 26 West. Im. Creamery 20 @ 24 Factory 14 @ 23 Cheese?State Factory 12^ Skims 8 @ 10 Western il%@ 12 Eggs?State and Penn 24 @ 24>? BUFFALO. Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 15 @ 5 50 Lambs?Western 4 5 'J @ 6 50 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 15 <g 5 55 Flour?Family 4 00 @ 4 30 Wheat?Wo. l w o Corn?No. 2, Mixed 55 @ 55}? Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? (g 35,^ Barley?State. S8 @ b9 BOSTOW. Beef?Good to choice 12 Hogs?Live 5?@ 6 Northern Dressed.... 7 Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbL..14 75 @10 75X Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @ 4 05 Com?High Mixed. ?2J<@ 6^ Oats?Extra White 45 @ 46 Rye-?State. 60 WATERTOWN (MASS.) OATTLE MATlKEr Beef-Dressed weight 7 @ 7'^ Sheep?Live weight ? @ 5 Lamoj 6 @ 7}^ Hogs?Northern 7 @ ~>X PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @3 85 Wheat?No. 2, Red !HJ @ 90;-? Com?State Yellow b"> ^ 57 Oats?Mixed 37 @ 3D Rye?State S&H? 53 Butter?Creamery Extra... 2S @ 2!) Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12%(2 13 FURS AND SKINS. Black Bear 18 00 @25 0> Cubs and yearling 6 00 (5)15 00 Otter, each 7 00 @10 00 Beaver, medium 4 00 @5 50 Mink 40 @ 00 Red Fox 1 20 @1 .SO Grey Fox 90 @ 1 10 Raccoon, each 75 @ 1 10 Skunk, black 1 00 @ 1 15 Skunk, half-striped 65 @ 75 Skunk, striped 30 @ 35 Skunk, white 15 @, 1? Opossum, large, cased 38 @' 43 Opossum, medium and open. 30 @ 23 Muskrat winter 16 @ 18 Mnskrat, fall 13 @ 15