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j5f 1 New Ulm leview. BRANDT & WEDDENDOKF, Publishera. NEW TJLM, MINNESOTA* An Englishman 'has inverited a bonnet which lean be taken off in the theater, folded up and used as a fan. The deficiency of the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy for the strike year is over four million dollars. Striking is expensive buisness for both sides. The"woman with the iron jaw," of circus fame, is a resident of Ridgway, Pa. She has traveled nearly all over the world. A Kentucky man while digging a rabbit out of a hole came across a keg of whiskey a hundred years old. This incident will enormously stimu late rabbit hunting in Kentucky. A pigeon missed seven times at a shooting match in New Jersey finally broke the string—attached to its leg that it might be again used as a tar get, if not hit—and flew off. AKentu2ky woman laments the loss of a purse, a thief having car ried it off, which she laid away forty years ago to insure her a decent burial. A panorama of the falls of Niagara is to be one of the attractions in Paris this year. I will give Ameri cans a chance to see one of the great est natural wonders of the world. A warning for highwaymen to give China the go-by, comes from that country in this form: "Not long since 50 highwaymen were executed at Kirin." It is believed that Murat Halsted will succeed Whitelaw Eeid, the new minister to France, as editor of The New York Tribune, and be succeeded by his son, Marshal Halstead, as edi tor of The Commercial Gazette. Moths of some kinds are said to change color to match the food that they happen to eat. A goat moth enclosed in a box lined with pink, and when a white lining was put in the box the moth became white. Since the purchase of Alaska, it can be said of the United States what has been said of England for the last century—that the sun never sets on her dominions. At sunset in Alaska the next morning's sun is an hour high in Maine. A whale and her calf were washed ashore at Santa Barbara, Cal., dur ing a recent storm. The discoverers rigged up a windlass and hauled the carcasses on the beach and will fry oil. They expect to get several hun dred barrels. Mr. Batcheller, the new assistant secretary of the treasury, has at Saratoga what is called "the house with a patent on it." I is of a queer, rambling design, and the plans are copyrighted and the arrangment patented, so that no one can build another like it. A race between bees and pigeons lately took place in Westphalia. The bees were marked by rolling in flour, and the first reached home over the distance of 3% miles twenty-five seconds before the first pigeon, three other bees arriving before the second pigeon. One Phillips, an Indiana farmer, dropped dead of apoplexy while feed ing his stock, and the body was guarded by his dog for two hours after until the arrival of his wife. Several times the hogs evinced a de sire to mutilate the corpse, but the faithful canine watcher drove the an imals away. ki- The mail route between Woodstock and Bridgewater, Vt.} a distance of six miles, appears to be a star route that does not need a Congressional investigation, but does deserve some notice. For the last four years it has cost Uncle Sam only 4 cents for a daily mail service on this route, and for the ensuing four years 1 cent is to pay for the same service. If warrants are drawn quarterly they will call for only one-sixteenth of a cent each, and the contractor will have to wait four years, or until he has received 16 warrants, before he can draw his cash. William Billings, who is believed by his friends to have seen more years of stage-driving than any other man now living, is to carry the mail overjbhis route. NEIJNDNCIATURE. A General Review of the 3fewf*of the Day Condensed from Associated Press Dispatches. Doings at Washington. I is understood that the new Sioux com mission will consist of William Warner of Missouri, Charles Foster of Ohio, John H. King of Dakota, Maj. Gen. Crook and a Democratic member, not yet decided upon, from Pennsylvania. A crew of sea captains has been selected to row President Harrison ashoie from the Dispatch to the landing at the foot of Wall street on April 29. When Washington was inaugurated he was rowed ashore by mem bers of the same marine society. On this occasion a barge has been built that resem bles so nearly as possible the one used a cen tury ago. A banner used by the roweis in the Washington inauguration will be car ried by the marine society in the parade. Fourth-class postmasters were appointed as follows: Dakota—William A. Rhodes, Marion, Turner county Walther, Minto, Walsh county Gr. C. Hangen, North wood, Grand Forks county. Iowa—J. Davis, Bonaparte, Van Buren county A. May, Brite, Hancock county Fred Roach, Chelsea, Tam a county M. Campbell, Glidden, Carroll county Henry Kette, Grand Junction, Greene county A. Wortnan, Kel ler, Story county Grace Goodale, Wirt, Ringgold county. Secretary Noble, in conversation at Wash ington, said that Corporal Tanner, the new commissioner of pensions, was not a bit more radical in his politics than he was. The secretary said he was in thorough accord with the commissioner in the removal of in competent or inefficient Democrats and the selection in their places of Republicans. "Tanner," said he, "believes in turning out ex-Confederates whenever more competent Union soldiers can be employed, and so do I." The secretary said that 150 special ex aminers in the pension office, all of whom were understood to be Democratic, would be dropped from the rolls at the end of the present fiscal year. Minor Casualties. Savnnah, Georgia, sufifered from a disas trous fire. The total loss is estimated at $500,000. No loss of life or serious injury to person occurred. The village of Cannons burg, Kent county, was practically wiped out by fire. Eight buildings were destroyed. The village has ao telegraphic communication, and no par ticulars have been obtained. Frank Peters went to sleep at Winnipeg on a Canadian Pacific side track under a box car with his head on the rail. A yard engine came along and moved the car and Peters' head was crushed to a jelly. The explosion, presumably that of a dyna mite bomb, which occurred on the evening of Feb. 8, in the area of David Stevenson's brewery in New York, has been found to bo the work of labor union men, four of whom are now in custody at police headquarters. The explosive was placed in an area on the Thirty-ninth street side, and tore away a large piece of wall, but the solidity of the masonry prevented extensive damage. By the arrest of the perpetrators, Inspector Byrnes got to the bottom, and one of the four men he has in charge has confessed his complicity with and told of the guilt of the other three. The Ways of the Wickefl: "Far'mer" McClaughrey, the boodle com missioner of Cook county, Illinois, was for mally released from custody at the peniten tiary at Joliet. Four train robbers were brought to Salt Lake City in charge of four officers from Ari zona, having been captured in southern Utah, heavily armed. The officers had a chase of 300 miles over rivers, mountains and plains, ending in a pitched battle. They forced the robbers to abandon their horses and scatter in the brush, where it took two days' search to secure them. The party left for Denver after six hours' rest. Two strangers visited Daniel Keller's place at Shamokin, Pa., and after a pro posal to purchase his farm engaged the old farmer in a game]of cards. Keller became in terested and procured $4,700, which he had put up as stakes. The money was seized by the strangers, and Keller was covered with a revolver while they moved off. Both es caped. One of the men represented himself as the son of J. B. Packer of Sunbury. an old friend of Keller's. Mrs. Annie M. Parks, an inspectress on Surveyor Beattie's force at New York, seized from Mrs. Davis, a passenger on the steamer Adriatic from Liverpool, about three pounds of woolen yarn, which she had quilted into one of her petticoats, thirteen yards of dress goods sewed into another, about twenty yards of flannels, which had been wrapped around her little daughter. Mrs Davis is a resident of Minnesota, and confessed to hav ing smuggled goods in this manner before. A fatal shooting affray occurred at Flat Head lake, Montana, the result of a land dispute. Hawkes and Fortin, two settlers, claimed some ground. Fortin occupied the land and was ordered off by Hawkes. He refused to go unless by legal process. The parties met and had a dispute about the matter, when Hawkes began firing at Fortin, hitting him in the hand and body and in the back as he was tryingto escape. The wounds proved fatal. Hawkes was arrrested. Yee Sing, a wealthy Chinese merchant of Denver, was arrested ab Chicago and left for Denver with the officers. The charge against him is that he eloped with Wong Toy, the wife of Chin Poo, another prominent China man of Denver, and that he took with him $400 of China Poo's cash, likewise. Yee Sing denies the theft of the money, but ad mits that Wong Toy loves him better than she does her husband. YeeSing, it is under stood, is an exiled mandarin. His manner and appearance certainly indicate that he is above the ordinary Celestial. *,*.. The residence of Robert McRane, an aged farmer living a few miles from East Liverpool 0, was visted by two masked men. They at tempted to chloroform the inmates, but were not successful. They knocked three small children almost senseless, and locked them in a small room, and asked Mr. McBane to give up all his money, saying they knew he received several thousand dollars Saturday for some territory he disposed of. On being old he had not received any money, they struck him with a fire shovel, cutting an ogly gash and knocking him senseless. Ella C. White is a music teacher in Elmira, N. Y., who has succeeded in borrowing amounts estimated from ?8,000 to $15, 000 from various Elmira citizens. She bor rowed money in several cases from frends by representing sheeouldrovestit profitably in other cases by offering notes signed, some by fictitious names and others signed by herself and endorsed by her father, whom she said was wealthy. Her father is a super anuated employe of thelErie shops at Susque hanna, Pa., and has transferred his nroper ty, amounting to $2,600. She was "arrest ed atlSusquehanna on four warrants, charg ing her with forgery The jury ithe itrial .of !Ltbby Beechler, who killed Henry W. King, Jr., in the Pax ton house ia few months ago, returned a ver dict of snot guilty at Omaha. The defense was insanity. The defendant lived with Km as his mistress in Chicago, and when he saari ied and came to Omaha to live she iollowed him and shot him imthe hall of the hotel-one morning. A tremendous roar of applause followed he announcement of the verdict. Peal after peal of applause, mingled with the tears of women and the hysterical manner of the prisoner rendered the room a seene of chaos. Hundreds of women crowded forward to congratulate -fche fair defendant. Mrs.King said to a reporter: I don't know as I am happy, bu t, yes I am-too. 1 am so confused I cannot talk." The verdict pleases everybody. A press dispatch received at (Denver from Chieago announces that Hip Lung, Sam Moy and Mon Chooy, three prominent Chinamen of that city, offered $1,000 if Yee Ling, of this city, would be prosecuted in that state instead of being tried Colorado on the charge of running away with the wife of Chin Poo, a prominent Denverite. One of the wealthiest Chinamen in the West, if not in America, is Chin Poo, of Denver. Among his clerks, until recently, was Yee Ling, who two months ago ran off with Chin Poo's wife, at the same time stealing aconsiderab'e quantity of valuable jewelry. After an ex citing chase detectives .captured Yee Ling in Arizona and he is at present languishing the county jail. There are nearly 700 Chin ese in Denver, and they are divided into sev eral families. Both factions are threatening each other, and the police fear trouble. I is said the high-binders have made a contract to murder Chin Poo. C. A. Smith, drunk and disorderly, was a record at the police court at Spokane Falls. This is the official record of a romantic af fiar. In Crookston, Minn., lived Christ C. Greenhallgh and wife. The wife is a good woman, but Greenhallgh is a drunkard. He paid attention to Anna, Kandret. This con tinued several years. Finally last year Greenhallgh persuaded the girl fcc* flee west with him. On the way she says she con ceived a disgust for him. When they reached Spokane Falls she ordered him to keep away from her. She went to work. Greenhallffh continued to force his attentions on her and threatened her lite and all her male admirers. She rec-eived an offer of marriage from a cer tain Mr. Marino, and an ied him last February. They went to board with a family named Donason, were said to be a quiet couple. While Marino and his wife were out walking, Greenhallgh, alias Smith, called in a drunken condition and asked Mrs. Donason for Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Donason said she knew no such person. Greenhallgh got angry and threatened her li'e. The al tercation attracted the neighbors and Greenhallgh was arrested. Mrs. Marino says Mrs. Grpenhallgh has sent money to her husband to come home, but he will not Personal Gossip. Gov. Beaver has received a letter from Maj. Armes, who assaulted him in Washington. It contains a most abject apology for his outrageous conduct, and begs him to inter fere at Washington to prevent the court martial. Armes says that rather than to submit to the disgrace of being court-mar tialed he will commit suicide, and pleads that it will disgrace his family. Gov. Beaver has not condescended to notice the communica tion. From Foreigfi Shores. Capt., Stubbs, of the schooner Carrie A Bucknam, which arrived at New York, from St. Domingo City, reports that on March 21, when off Saona island, at about noon he sighted a vessel steaming toward his vessel from the laud, then distant about six cr eight miles. The craft proved to be a Do. minican warvsssel. When nearly in the schooner's wake, much to the surprise of the crew she fired a shot, which struck the water only a few yards from the Bucknam's stern. She then gave a chase, but with a good strong breeze the sciiooner distanced her. She was a low, rakish, two-masted steamer of about 500 tons burthen,a pparent ly of French or Spanish build. Her decks were crowded with men. What her errand was can only be conjectured, as the Buck nam was far outside of theirjurisdiction and on the high seas, where they could have no legitimite right to overhaul her. The Amer ican flag was flying at the schooner's peak all the time, it having been hoisted as soon as the steamer was made out to be a war vessel. Miscellaneous Sews Items. Peter Leher, a farmer living one mile west of Herndon, Iowa, struck a tremendous flow of natural gas at a depth of 180 feet. The well is twenty-six inches in diameter. The force of the gas was so great that the tools were thrown entirely out, and large rocks hurled into the air. A stream of sand was thrown 300 feet high. The people of Tyler county, Virginia, es pecially along and near the railroad, are very much excited over the appearance of dozens of mod dogs. The country is now believed to be full of bitten animals. A general hunt is in progress and every ani mal suspected of having been bitten will be killed. There is great uneasiness among the people. James E. McDowell was appointed register of the land office at Huron, Dakota. He is one of the Dakota colony that fought the battle of statehood last winter. He was rec ommended by Moody, Mathews, Mellette, and almost everybody for that matter. He stayed in Washington after the rest were gone, and did not allow the secretary to for get his application. He has his, reward in the first land office appointment made in Dakota. Gov. Leslie or Montana.issued an uncolM ditional pardon to'William H. Burgess, who was sentenced to thirteen years' imprison ment for murder in the second degree. Bur gess was sentenced fronj^Fetffrus county at the May term of thecourjin 1888 for killing Dennis O'Brien. In the[ pardon proclama tion the governor reviews the testimony in the case, showing at the killing of O'Brien was due to a quarrel over amine near Maiden, of which Burgess was in possession, the gov ernor holding that the^act was done in de fending his property, and probably his li*e. The pardon meets with consideralbe dis satisfaction, many citizens thinking it an abuse of executive clemency. An interesting liquor case has just been de cided at Mount Pleasantjlowa. The defend ants were tried oh the ordinary liquor selling indictments. The witnesses- had as shown by evidence, bought cider inithe defendant's restaurant. The question was whether or not cider is classed with intoxicatingliquors. Judge Travers said that while cider is at first a non-intoxicant, it becomes intpxicating course of time. Since the law prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors it prohibits the sale of cider. Judge Travers also overthrew another ingenious evasion of the law. In a shanty near Mount Pleasant a board parti tion had made a large room on one side and a small one on the other. A barrel was set in the partition and the customer could dp posit his money and get his drinks without seeing the man in the other room. This made it possible for the customer to swear that he did not see the liquor seller and did not know who it was. The proprietor in this case is now jail serving a sentence of four months. STREET CA STRIKE. Not a Horse Car Running in St. Panl or Minne apolis—A Thousand Hen Standing out. The street car drivers of St. Paul and Minneapolis, numbering over a thousand men, are out on a strike, and not a car is running, except on the cable lines of St. Paul. The street car company reduced the wages of drivers from seventeen cents to fifteen cents an hour, and in addition thereto demanded that the men should sign a paper pledging themselves not to join any labor union or association. The sympathies of the public seem to be almost entirely on the part of the men. IN MINNEAPOLIS. The company and the police attempted to fun the cars, and while doing so, this incident occurred: As this car, the third one, pulled out from the barn, and the second one, which made the round trip, moved away from the barn, a lady ot rather slender form, wearing a neat black bat and a plush cloak, stepped from the outside of the crowd and quicklv mount ed the car. She had hardly tasen a standing position beside the steuo young fellow who drove betore she began her mission. She was Mrs. McCurdy, the young wife of a driver who was among the strikers, but who was noc at the b&rn at the time his wife boaided the car. The lady paid no attention to any one but the driver. She stood close to him, and she used her right hand in gesture. I came in here to ask you not to drive this car. Will you not leave and be an honorable man? The driver announced that if he left the car homebody else wouid gladly take his placa "I appeal to vou, young man, as a wife and mother, if you have anv respect for honest workinsmen, who are simply asking what is neht, not to take this car any farther. I beg of you not to work against these men. I beg of you in the name of hutranity not to work in the place of a man who is staking to keep himself from stat vation. I am the wife of a striker. My poor husband has worked night and day for the comDany, ana what he got was hardly enough to keep his little family. If you have one spark of manhood, if you have a wife and children whom you respect, vou will not be the servant of a man who is trvmg to crush the men. I am go ing to stay with you and keep you companv. I don't know that this is just the thing for a lady to do, but I could not help it. I will behave myself and not sav anything that is wrong or unladylike. But I do hope my appeal will touch a tender spot in you and that ou will not continue to drive." The laoy's earnestness attracted much at tention along the avenue. She continued to petition the driver until Eighth stieet was reached. She looked into the face of the driver, but saw no sympathetic responses, and after her effort she appeared to feel dis couraged. She turned to a PIONEER PEESS reporter and asked if there wa* a conductor on the car. The conductor was pointed out, and Mrs. McCurdy stepped down upon the side platform and reached from post to post as she passed to the rear of the car. "Are vou the conductor?" she asked in a sor rowful tone. "Yes, I am," replied the silent, stoical man who faced the front and leaned against the near rail ing. "Well, sir, I beg of you not to work in the places of the strikers. It is a slriKe for justice upon the part of the poor men who have been trying to support families upon low wages. Will von not heed my appeal? Have you no honor? Have you no respect tor home?" "I have no argument to make with vou," re plied the conductor, whose name is W. F. La Dieu. and who did not appear to be in the least affected by the woman's appeal. "You can have no argument," she quickly re plied "There is no argument for a man in your position to offer." "What will you take and let me alone? I will give vou 50 cents if you will keep quiet," said the conductor. "I am not to be bought off," said Mrs. McCur dy. "I would not work against my fellows for $5,000. I cerl amly would not work for $5 cr $10 as you are doing "This is a free country," continued La Dieu, "and men can do as they please. I have been around a good deal, and there are thousands of men who would be glad to take this place." "I suppose there are," said the lady. "I am instructed to collect tares," said the con ductor, "and if you are going to ride you will have to pay." "I have a nickel that I will give for the privi lege of riding with so unusual a sort of man," and she pulled out her slender pocketbook. A reporter paid the lady's fare, and she turned to the scribe and said: thank you, sir. I cannot touch this man's heart. I am the wife of a man who has driven for about five months. We live upstair-s at 2419 Fifth avenue south. I have not always been in poor circumstances. We lost all by fire. My husband attended the Wisconsin srate university for five years. He is capable of falling almost any position, but had to accept a position as driver. The woman stood up while the car made the trip to First avenue north and return. She felt that her work had not been a suc cess, and as she left the car at the barn she looked discouraged. A. few gentlemen handed her a small sum of money as she started for home. JH 8T. PAUL The street car men are confident that they will win the fight, and the meeting which they held at the united labor headquarters on East Seventh street la5t eveniner was of a most enthusiastic character. J. A Johnson, of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, presided, and aumerous speeches were made by the etrikinor drivers, urging all to stand together and success was assured. The committee that waited on President Lowry reported their chilly reception, stating that he abso lutely refused their proposition to sub mit the question to arbitration. Having failed to secure a settlement of the difficulty in this peaceable manner, they weie com pelled to take more extreme measures and order the men to quit work during the after noon. This step was taken as a last resort, their desire being to avoid any inconvenience to the public. When a fair offer of arbitra tion was declined in the most decided man ner, nothing else could be done. Miss Eva McDonald, of the Minneapolis Trades and Labor assembly, was present, and urged the strikers to stand firm and their cause wonld triumph. She dec ared that the reports that the strikers in Minneapolis had been the cause of the trouble there were false, as all the disturbance was caused by outsiders, who are always ready to fake advantage of such occasions to make trouble The trades and labor assembly held a meeting at the same hour in an "adjoining hall, President James Coughlin in the chair, and after listening to a statement of the case made by the officers of the street car men's union, passed the following resolutions: Whereas, The street railway company of Min neapolis and St. Paul reduced the wages of its employes to a point that affords them scarcely a bare subsistence and Whereas, Said reduction does not appear to affect the high salaries of officials or office em ployes and Whereas, The excuse given for the action on the part of the company is that the profits dur ing the past year have been too small,while dur ing the winter of 1887-8 they could just pay ex penses, when it cost them "$10,00o per month to keep the snow off the tracks," according to the statement of one of the officials at the time,, and in the financial statement of the company published in yesterday's papers they show that the entire Minneapolis system is oondedfor three times its actual cost, thereby proving themselves guilty of the most flagrant criminal conspiracy and Whereas, The company entered into a con tract with their Minneapolis employes on May 33, 1388, to continue one year from date, every provision of which has been flagrantly violated hy the company, and they now insist on em ployes signing an iron-c'ad agreement to the effect that they will renounce all allegiance to labor organizations and Whereas, The employes in both cities have re fused to submit, and quit work, and the com pany has refused every offer to arbitrate, thereby showing a determination to deprive their employes of their independence and man hood and break up then: organizations there fore Resolved, That the trades and labor assembly of St. Paul, representing the various labor or ganizations of the city, condemn the con duct of the company as unworthy the toleration of a free people: that we promisejthe street railway employes of both cities our heart support and co-operation, morally and financially, trusting that their conduct will be manly and that no attempt will be made to re sort to violence. These resolutions were presented to the street car men's meeting, and their spirit was heartily endorsed. The following reso lution was then adopted unanimously: Resolved, That we, the employes of" the St. Paul Street Railway company, realizing that our position has been forced upon us by neces sity, and appreciating the inconvenience which a. walk-out causes to the traveling public, unan imously hold ourselves readiness now, as in the past, to submit our grievance to arbitration, ana thus provide for an equitable adjustment ot this difficulty. The meeting also appointed committees from drivers on the various lines to visit the barns and use moral suasion to induce any new men engaged to take out cars not to work. They were instructed not to use any violence whatever aDd to avoid all intem perate or bad language in their efforts. These committees will visit the different barns this mornmsr. as it is expected the companv will make an effort to start out some cars. THE MARKETS, NEW YOKK. Wheat—No.2 red, 85?4(®86e.. in store 87% @87% afloat No. 3 rod. 79@80c, No. 1 red 98c N white 90c, Barley quiet and steady. Corn, No 2 42%@42% No. 2 white, 46c No. 3, 42V£@43%c ungraded, mixed 41@44c steamer mixed 42ys@433/ic. Oats, No.2 white, 33y2g.34c mixed western, 30@33c white western,34@39y2c No. 2 Chicago, 32V£e. Hay, shipping 65c aood to choice S0@95c Eggs, western, 1 0 Butter, western dairy, 12@20c do creamery 18@26: Elgins, 27y2@28c. Cheese, dull and unsettled, west ern 8y2@10y2c. Lard, western steam, $7.25 CHICAGO. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 85%@86c No. 3 spring wheat, 75@ SOc: No. 2 red, 8554@86c No. 3 corn, 34y8@34%e. No. 2 oats, 25Mc No. 2 rye, 4 3 No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1 flax seed, $1.53@1.54. Prime timothy seed, $ 1.30@1.33. Mess pork (per bbl) $11.85@ 11 90. Lard (per 100 lbs). $6.82%. Short rib sides (loose), $5.90@6. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), $6.37y2@6.50. Short clear sides (boxed), §6.37y2@6.50. Eggs, MINNEAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 1 hard, April, $ 1.01 Mav, $1.01% July, §1.02 Track, $1.03 No. 1, Northern. April, 90c May, 90c July, 9%c Track 90@91c No, 2, Northern, April, 79c May, 79c July 80c Track S0@82. Flour. Patents, sacks, to local dealer, $5.70@6.20 patents to ship, sacks, car lots, •f5.50@6 in barrels, $3.70@6.15 delivered at New England points, $6.35@6.85 New York points, $G.25@6.75 delivered at Phila delphia and Baltimore, $6.20@6.70 bakers' here $3.75@4.75 superfine. $2@3.50, red dog. sacks, $1.35@1.50 red dog, bbls, $1.60®].70. Bran and shorts, $7.2o@7.50 Corn, fair, No. 2, 30@32c Oats, 20@28c Barley, 20@40c Ha wild, $3 timothy, $3.50@7. Flax $1.47, Chicago, $1.53. Feed, $11@12. ST. PAUL. Prices on incoming trains only: W a No. 1 hard, $1.03 bid: No. 1 Northern, 91c bid No. 2 Northern 81c bid. Corn—No. 2, 31@33e, No. 3 sample, 31c bid. Oats—No. 2 mixed, 22c bid: No. 2 white. 26@27c May, 29c No. 3, 21@23c Rye—No. 2, 41@43c Bailey—Xo. 2, 50c bid No.3,3o@45c No 4, 35@40c. Ground Feed—$11.30®12.50 No. 3, $13.25. Corn Meal—Unbolted, $12.50. Bran—$7.50 Hay—No. 1 upland prairie, $4.50@5 No. 1, $3.50@4 30, timothy, $7. Flax Seed—$1.44 bid. Eggs—$2.85(d!3 per case ice house $1. Flour—Patents. $3 80@ 6 straights. $3.20@3.40 bakers' $3.73® 4.25 rye, 3 30@4 buckwheat, $3. choice creamery. 20@22c extra dairy 16@ 18c roll and print choice, 10@13c fair to medium, 10@12c packing stock, 7@9c grease, 3@4c Cheese—fancy, 10®12 fine, skim, 6@73/2C. Bonlanger on Trial. When the French senate met on Friday the president read the decree constituting that body a tribunal for the trial of Gen. Boulan ger, Count Dillon and M. Kochefort. The procureur general, Quesnay de Beaurrenair, then road a (statement setting forth the grounds upon which the constitution of the accused is baspd. When the reading was '•cn cluded, the senate went info executive ses sion and the public withdrew. The trial of Gen. Boulanger and his associates was then formally begun. The senators had been re quested to appear in evening dress for the occasion, The requebt ivas icnoied by the membeis of the right, all of whom wore frock coats The members of the left were attiied in evening dress and woie white cravats. The following commission has been appointed to conduct the trial of Gen. Boulanger and the other ac cused persons. Senator Merlin, Cazot, Cor delet, Trarieux, Munier, De Marceie, Demole, L'Avertujon. Merellet and Humbert. Assist ant commissioners have also been appointed, who will replace their colleasues ontheieg ular commission if necessary The assistant commissioners are- Senators Garrigat, Dusoher, Develle, De Roziere and Testelin. Senator Delbreil will not attend the trial. He holds that a political body like the senate has no right to try a delegate of the people. He declares that the trial is a revolutionary measure and a deiiance universal suffrage. Senator Leon Renault will also abstain irom participation in the trial. A motion from the Right, declaiing that there was no ground lor ajudicial inquiry into theconduct of Boulan ger, was rejected by a vote of 209 to 56. The tenate then resolved, by a vote of 210 to 55, to proceed immediately with his trial. Thereupon the doors were reopened and the public was resumed. M. Leroyer read tbe decree authorizing the senate to set as a court and directed that the trial proceed. Several members of tha Right refused to ac cept a seat on the senate commission. Marshal Conroberl in an excited speech said he would never be a party to the prosecu tion on such frivolous grounds of a general who had well served his country. The sit ting was a stormy one. The spectatorf were apathetic. A Horrible Tale of Murder. Ellison Hatfield, one of the participants in the Hatfield-McCoy feud, who is confined in the Pike county jail in Kentucky, has made a confession to State's Attorney Lee Fergu son, '"I was present." he said, "and partici pated in the murder of the three McCoy brothers—Tolbert, Farley and Randolph. The three brothers were taken from a school house in Logan county, West Virginia, where they had been guarded for a day and a night, and brought over the Tug river, which seperates West Virginia and Kentucky. About fifty feet from the river Carpenter tied them to a pawpaw bush and hung a lantern over their heads. Anee Hatfield then said to them: 'Boys, if you have any peace to make with your Maker you had better make it.' Tolbert and Randolph began praying, but Farley did nob. How ever, before the boys had time to finish their prayers, John Hatfield shot Farley dead. Anse then gave order to fire, and shot as he gave the word, killing Tolbert and then emptying the contents of his revolver into the dead body. Alex Husser fired and killed Randolph McCoy. The others followed suit and all the bodies were riddled with bullets. After the boys were killed Walt Hatfield ad ministered an oath to all of us to take the life of the first who divulged tbe names of any who were along." Capt.JBatfield said that he and Tom Wallace shot Jeff McCoy after he had escaped from them. The prisoner also gave the particu lars of the brutal murder of Alifera and Alvin McCoy in which he took part. Nine of the Hatfield faction on a Sunday night in January, 1888, crossed the river into Ken tucky under command of Jim Vance. They surrounded the McCoy homestead, fired the house, and killed the girl as she attempted to extinguish the flames. Cap and John Hatfield both claimed that they killed Calvin McCoy, and bragged about it. 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