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'TWEEN THE LAKES. MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD FOR MICHICANDERS. irand Chapter of the Eastern Star at Detroit Insurance ConiinUsloner Takea a Fall Out of Fake Compa nies C. M. t. A. Supreme Council. Grand Chapter O. E. 8. The grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Michigan met in annual convention at Detroit with over 3W delegates mostly ladies present, representing nearly all the larger towns and cities of Michigan. Mayor Maybury made an address of welcome which was responded to by Associate Grand Patron W. F. King of Adrian. The reports of officers showed that the order has 174 chapters in Michigan and 1G3 were represented. The member ship is 14,937, an increase for the year of 2,380. The total receipts for the year were S4.C38.75. During the year there were 102 deaths. The work was exemplified by De troit chapter, No. 110, and a reception was given by the five local chapters to the grand officers, and the delegates. It was voted to pay $300 a year toward the support of the Grand Rapids Ma sonic home. Mrs. Ida Josylin, of North ville, was elected worthy grand matron ly a good margin. Other oflicers elected: Worthy grand patron, Wm. F. King, of Adrian; associate grand matron, Mrs. Helen E. C. Rainier, of ML Pleasant; assistant grand patron, A. C. Northrup, of Jackson; grand sec retary. Sister A. A. Mattison, of Mid dleville; grand treasurer, Mrs. Susan K. Winans, of Lansing; grand conduc tress, Mrs. D. C. Page, of Petoskey; associate grand conductress, Mrs. II. C. Derthick, of Ionia. The worthy grand matron appointed the following oflicers: Grand chaplain, Mrs. Florence Rabbitt, of Ypsilanti; grand marshal, Mrs. llattie 11. Parsons, of Uuion City; Adah, Ehnere Field, of Wacousta; Ruth, Mrs. Mollie Drown, of Lexing ton; Esther, Mrs. L. J. Ford, of Mason; Martha, Mrs. Mary llcnke, of Glad stone; Electa, Mrs. Iliglestone, of St. Ignace; warder, Mrs. lleald, of Daw tsonville; organist, Minnie E. Eaton, of Harbor Springs. It was decided to meet at Grand Rapids next year. .Steam Cooker Kxplodea Two Head. A steel cooker in Shattuck's canning ractory at Adrian exploded, blowing the head end into the room where the employes were working, hurling iron and hot squash in every direction. The most seriously injured were: Wm. lVatt, leg broken, head cut and badly burned, died in two hours; Rert Kim ball, thigh broken, terribly scalded, died in a few hours; Thomas Grinncll, skull fractured, cannot live; Jacob Schneider, back injured, burned; Al bert lloltz. bad wounds in chest and arms, severely scalded; Louis Patch, arm cut. Quite a number of others were struck by hot splashes of cooked squash. None of the women employes were seriously injured. The cooker is a large steel receptacle in which the products of the farm are prepared for canning, nnd it is alleged that the ex plosion was caused by too much steam being turned on. Toons Man Shoots a Hoy Aged C At the Swan school house, live miles cast of Mason, Henry Potter, aged 15, shot Wade Robinson, aged 0, with a double-barreled gun. Over 30 shot struck young in the Robinson's head, and he will die. Potter had been out hunting and stopped at the school house where the children were playing. With his gun he climbed on top ofi th fence and, spy ing young Robinson, exclaimed: I will blow the head oil Wade Robin eon." The little fellow started to run, but Potter raised his gun and fired. There has been bad blood between the 3louinson and Potter families for some time, but young Potter says he didn't think the gun was loaded and only in tended to scare the boy. C. M. It. A. Supreme Council. The supreme council of the Catholic Mutual Rene fit association in their eleventh triennial session, at Grand Rapids, elected the following oflicers: President, Michael Rrennau; vice-presidents, John M. Molamphy, of Pitts burg, and Wm. Muench, of Syracuse; recorder, C. J. Hickey, of Rrooklyn; treasurer, J. M. Welsh, of Ilornells ville, N. Y.; marshal, Dennis Hughes, of Titusville, Pa.; guard, J. 11. Dron eyn, of Montreal; legal adviser, J. T. Keen a, of Detroit The next session will be held In Ruffalo. The order has a total membership of 42.0 10 and disbursed $2,130,418 in beneficiaries in the last three years. It has 330,134 in the reserve fund and spend $22,433 in current expenses. After Mllo 1). Campbell' Scalp. Rowland Connor, presi'ient, and Charles E. Still, secretary, of the Com mercial Fire Insurance Co. and the Wolverine Fire Insurance Co. of Sagi naw, have petitioned Gov. Pingree to remove Milo 1). Campbell from o (lice as state insurance commissioner. They charge him with gross misrepresenta tion of the affairs of the two compan ies, with malicious injury, and with trying to wreck them. They also charge incompetency and prostitution of his ofllce. Daniel Robinson, engineer at the Hay County Electric Light works, at Hay City, was caught in a belt, dragged over a pulley, and instantly killed. His right leg was torn off at the knee, his head crushed to a pulp and the left arm broken in several places. The civic-philanthropic conference at Rattle Creek was largely attended by lending men and women of the country interested in movements for the betterment of the conditions of human existence. A large number of valuable papers were- read and dismissed. 23 Unreliable Insurauee Companies. 'State Insurance Commissioner Camp bell is on the warpath against off-color tire insurance companies. He replies to the charges made to Gov. Pingree against him by the oflicers of two Sag inaw companies whom ho called to time, and who asked for his removal. Mr. Campbell calls attention to 22 fire insurance companies which he desig nates as myths, having no legal exist ence anywhere. Rut they are scatter ing policies and collecting premiums wherever they can. He says that Mich igan citizens are victims and are with out legal remedy, and that risks should bo placed only with companies author ized to do business under the Michigan laws. MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS. Snow is reported in Houghton and Marquette counties. Over 10,000 people attended the la s day of the street fair at Paw Paw. An F. & P. M. passenger train killed and terribly mangled John Hamilton, aged 60, near Saginaw. The preliminary work has begun on the electric railroad from Rattle Creek to Gull lake and Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo's street fair was a big success, fully 75,000 visitors attending on the day of the grand floral parade. Gov. Pingree has appointed Charles Kelsey, cf Marquette, probate judge of Marquette county to succeed Peter Pascoe, deceased. St. Clair county farmers' first exper iment with sugar beets have proven successful and a refinery will probably be established at Port Huron. The barns of Wm. Parker, north of Deckerville, were destined by fire, to gether with the year's crops. Loss about $0,000, partly covered by insur ance. William II. Royns, widely known in furniture circles, is organizing a new company to manufacture furniture at Grand Rapids, and will employ 100 to 150 men. The residents of Schoolcraft are agi tating the subject of putting in water works ami electric lighting systems. The question will probably be settled favorably. Homer Harwooil, of Warren, has a strawberry patch from which ripe strawberries have been picked for the Jast two weeks. The bed was mowed down in July. Grand Rapids' common council has ordered the issue of $125,000 bonds for a municipal electric lighting plant. The bonds were authorized by popular vote last spring. Ed Hayes, alias Chas. Drown, who was shot at Kalamazoo while trj'ing to escape from Deputy Sheriff Clark, will probably die as the bullet pierced his intestines in 10 places. Roy Cowles, of Thetford, Genesee county, was riding on a load of sand, but fell off and the wagon wheels ran over his back, injuring his spine so that his recovery is doubtful. The Toledo t Northwestern Railway Co. has filed articles of association with the secretary of state. The company is organized to build a line of rail road from Albion to Charlotte. Mortou E. Case has f-erved as super visor of Pittsfield township, Washte naw county, since 1S75, and has been presented with a gold-headed cane by the other members of the board. While working in the Tamarack mine at Calumet, half a mile below the sur face, John II. Johnson, a trammer who was loading cars, was crushed to a bloody mass by a heavy fall of rock. Martin Solvener, aged 10, ran his bi cycle into a horse standing at a curb at Saginaw. As the boy fell the horse reared up and planting one hoof on his head crushed his skull and he will probably die. A saloon closing campaign has been started at Marquette, and saloon men threaten to enforce the Sunday blue laws and thus stop the street cars and close all business places except drug stores on Sunday. Guy Roswell and Warren Puterbaugh are under the care of physicians at Denton Harbor having received the contents of a shotgun fired by Norman Caruthers, a colored man, guarding at night his employer's fruit farm. C. E. Huntley, a Michigan Central railway section foreman at Tckonsha, suicided with strj'chnine. He had been despondent since his only son was drowned last spring, lie leaves a wife and one daughter. Ohio capitalists have leased a largo amount of land around Grass lake, in Jackson county and will erect a $150, 000 plant for the manufacture of Port land cement, tile and brick, the mate rial for which lies in thick deposits on the bottom of the lake. Fred Thomas, who lives near Palo, and who drives a huckster's wagon, was held up and robbed of the proceeds of a sale of produce. The robbers tied Thomas to the wheel of.his wagon and when he was found the next morning he was more dead than alive. A woman was pulled out of the ship canal at Sault Stc. Marie in a half-dead condition, by Watchman Dernier. Af ter she had been revived she gave her name as Mrs. Atchison, of Superior, Wis., and said she wanted to commit suicide and she very nearly succeeded. Thirty-two years ago George Davis, white, was sent to Jackson prison for criminally assaulting a colored girl in Saginaw. Davis says he is innocent of the crime and as he is now 70 years old he is preparing to ask for a pardon so that he may die outside of the prison walls. The general store belonging to Col. J. R. Petermann, at the Allouez mine, three miles from Calumet, was de stroyed by fire. Loss on the stock will amount to over $20,()u0 and the insur ance carried was $10,000. The build ing, which was owned by the Allouez Mine Co., was not insured. Three barns belonging to Sylvetus Lamb in Rollin, Lenawee county, were destroyed by fire, together with the contents, which included three horses. Charles Peck, a farmer living near Albion, narrowly escaped death by cremation. A portion of his burning roof had already fallen in before he had awoke, and upon his escape he found the barn, which was located 40 rods from the house, entirely con sumed. Loss about $3,500. The opening of the Rarnum mine at Ishpeming is a substantial evidence of the return of prosperity. It means the employment of nearly 500 men this fall and winter. The Rarnum mine has been the life and mainstay of Ishpem ing, and since it was closed down, in July, 1894, business in that city has been practically at a standstill. The schooner Kate Winslow,, carry ing 1,200 tons of pig iron, foundered in Lake Michigan, near Manistique, after being abandoned in a gale by the steamer Queen of the West, which was towiug her. The crew escaped in the boats and reached Whitdale. The Winslow was built in 1872, was valued at $15,000 and insured for $10,000. Receiver T. A. E. Weadock, of the First National bank, of East Saginaw, is now paying off the fourth dividend to creditors of the bank, making 70 per cent thus far. The bank has a lot of redwood in California and other re sources and the hope of the receiver is, when the property is disposed of, to pay 100 per cent and have a surplus. Miss Carrie Haskell, an eccentric school teacher at Ludington, quarreled with her brothers and, although in good health, resolved to stay in bed five years. The time was almost up when she was taken sick with typhoid fever. She Jhen expressed a desire to resume life's activities, but has died without her wish being gratified. Secretary Wade of the U. of M. re ports that the university attendance is 300 more than last year, all depart ments showing a gain, except the medical. The total is 2,'JO'J against 2, GIG. If the registration after this date equals that of 181)0 the number of students in the calendar, exclusive of summer school students, will be nearly or quite 3,200. Dccause her parents forbade her to walk on the village streets in the. even ing the 14-year-old daughter of John Worthley committed suicide at Roch ester, by-taking a dose of strychnine. The girl wrote a note to her parents, saying she would rather die than stay home every night and requested that her best love be conveyed to a young man in Pontiac. The financial state of affairs in Ray City and Ray county is becoming badly muddled. Ray City's contingent fund has been overdrawn $35,000 and West Ray City is clamoring for the allow ance of a big claim. Ray City has a claim against the county for $5,000, which, added to $10,000 the countj owes the state, causes the supervisors considerable worry. Ex-Senator Chas. W Jones, of Flor ida, who 10 years ago created a na tional sensation by his persistent and unwelcome attentions to Miss Clotilde Palms, a Detroit heiress, died at St. Joseph's retreat, a private asylum near Detroit, where he had been taken when infatuation and repeated rejec tions broke down his once robust mind. The body was taken to Florida for burial. II. C. Morrison, of Sault Ste. Marie, Hugh Ross and another man were hunting near Munoseong bay, and were walking single file through the bush. Morrison being in the lead and Ross right behind him, w hen the gun of the later went off, pouring its deadly charge into Morrison's back and he lived but a few moments. It is sup posed that the hammer of Ross' gun was caught by a twig. Frank Phiscatcr, of Raroda, who brought out a fortune from the Alaska gold mines, has gone to New York to dispose of a two-thirds interest in his claims in Alaska to an English syndi cate for $1,333,000. From New York he will go to Washington, having been summoned there by Comptroller Eck els to give the treasury department some information regarding Alaska. In February Phiseater will return to Alaska to develop his mines. It is expected a sugar beet factory will be erected at Saginaw during the coming year with a capacity of 500 tons of beets a daj', which will represent an investment of about $100,000. Out of the 550 farmers of Saginaw county who were given seed for experimental growing last spring it is found that nearly 200 of them have grown beets in Europe, and many of the farmers around Saginaw have worked in beet sugar factories in the old country. J. L. Rerkheimer, who was clerk of the appropriations committee of the senate in the last legislature and who was later a clerk in the auditor-general's office, has just been acquitted, at Lansing, of the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. It was charged that he made unauthorized drafts upon Senator Merrimnn's credit for $200. Rerkheimer sa-s he has been persecuted, and he will now give the public some inside information regard ing the manner in which the railroad companies dictated the terms of Sena tor Mcrriman's railroad specific tax bill in the last legislature. John Carson, a mulatto, aged 17, an inmate of the Industrial school for boys at Lansing was instantly killed in a very peculiar manner. After wash ing for breakfast and while waiting for the bell to ring, he threw back his shoulders inhaled a long breath, and usked a companion to strike him on the chesL The lad did not strike hard enough and another boy was also too weak to suit, and then Carson asked Frank Mardin, a powerfully built, mu latto about his own age, to hit him. Mardin landed a blow on Carson's solar plexus, and the lad toppled over and died before the physician reached him ITEMS OF INTEREST. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS PICKED PROMISCOUSLY. Great Ilritalu Kefusea to Talk n Seal In the Presence of Kussla and Japan Much to I'ncle Nam's Astonishment Supreme Justice Field It et Ires. British Hack Out of the Seal Conference. The officials of the Rrltish foreign office have communicated to U. S. Am bassador Hay the final decision that the government of Great Rritain must refuse to take part in any sealing con ference with representatives of Russia and Japan. The British government, however, asserts its willingness to con fer with the United States alone. Dip lomats consider that Great Britain's course was not courteous to Russia and Japan. . Secretary Sherman has written a re ply to the note of Lord Salisbury ex pressing Great Rri tain's declination to take part in the Renng sea seal confer ence if Russia and Japan are to par ticipate. Mr. Sherman states that the U. S. government views with astonish ment this determination of Great Rrit ain, and says that up to Sept 23 the U. S. authorities had fully expected that the conference would proceed with Russia and Japan, as well as Great Rritain, present It is pointed out that aside from the written correspond ence to which Lord Salisbury had sailed attention, there were verbal ne gotiations between Ambassador Hay and his lordship, in which specific ref erence was made to the participation of Russia and Japan. Resides the foregoing reply, and in view of the differences which have arisen, Mr. Sherman suggests a confer ence between experts of the United States, Great Rritain and Canada. In the meantime preparations for the conference between the United States, Russia and Japan are proceeding and it will be well under way before the close of this month. If Great Rritain persistently refuses to come to any agreement on the seal ing controversy, it is highly probable that the retaliatory measures against Canada will be recommended to con gress, for, unless England pledges her self to assist the United States in pro tecting fur kit. Is, there is no other course which will prevent the Canadian fishermen in the Rering sea from con tinuing their merciless slaughter. It is probable also that Russia and Japan would join in retaliatory measures. IT. S. Supreme Court Justice Field Retires Justice Stephen J. Field, of Califor nia, announced to the U. S. supreme court the fact that he had sent his re signation to President McKinley, to take effect Dec. 1, and it has been ac cepted. Justice Field was appointed by President Lincoln and took his seat May 20, 1803, and is the last survivor of the immortal Lincoln's appointees. During Justice Field's incumbency three chief justices and 10 associate justices have passed away. A touching reply was made by the other members of the supreme bench and after the ad journment of the court the justices and the oflicers of the court called in a body at Justice Field's house and took official leave of the retiring jus tice. Although his resignation does not take effect until the first of De cember it is the understanding that Justice Field will not resume his seat on the bench during the interim. President McKinley apparently has not decided yet upon the appointments that Justice Field's retirement will oc casion, save that Attorney-General Me Kenna will be nominated for the su preme bench unless some cause inter venes between now and December to prevent it Historic Canadian Town Destroyed. Historic Windsor, one of the most beautiful towns in Nova Scotia, was devasted by fire, which, fanned by a violent northwest gale, raged so fiercely that the local fire department was absolutely helpless to cope with it. Within six hours the town had been eaten almost completely, the area cov ered by the flames being nearly a mile square, and of the 400 and more build ings occupying the section barely half a dozen scorched structures remain, and over 3,000 people were rendered homeless. Fortunately no lives were lost, although the streets were perilous with flying timbers, bricks and slates, which the fierce hurricane drove like thunderbolts from the roofs. The total loss is estimated roughly at 83,000,000, and the total insurance is calculated to be not more than $500,000. Opera House Celling Dropped. During a performance in Robinson's opera house at Cincinnati, the central truss of the ceiling, 80 feet long and 30 feet wide, fell with' a crash and with slight warning. The house was fairly well filled with people and the rush for the doors at the first cracking sounds choked the isles and the celling fell upon scores of people killing Mrs. Geo. Kleeman, Miss Lucy Cohen and an unknown man. Five other persons were dangerously injured and at least a dozen more quite seriously hurt The building was an old one aud the trusses of the dome had rotted. Later Mrs. Alfred White has died from injuries received. James and Wm. Jordan encountered two rough looking characters as they approached their home, near Musko gee, I. T., after spending the night with a sick friend. When James asked what they were doing there the fel lows shot him dead; then Win. pulled his gun and killed both of them. They were identified as Moses Miller and Rill Wilson, noted desperadoes. John Armstrong Chanler, the di vorced husband of Amelie Rives and a grandson of John Jacob As tor, is re ported to be insane in the- Blooming dale asylum at New York. Cdltor Chas. A. Dana Dead. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, died at his home in Glen Cove, L. I., at-the age of 78. Mr. Dana's death had been expected for several hours and his family and physicians were- at his bedside when the end came. The cause of Mr. Dana's death was cirrhosis of the liver. On June 0 he was at the ofllce appar ently strong and healthy. The next day he was taken ill and he never afterward visited New York. Ry the death of Charles Anderson Dana America loses one of the most brilliant journalists she has ever known. He was born Aug. 8, 1819, and entered the newspaper business in the '40s as a reporter on the Boston Chronotype. In 1847 he became city editor of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune and was later European cor respondent during the troublous times in France in 1848-9. Soon after the civil war begun Mr. Dana severed con nections with Mr. Greeley owing to differences on questions pertaining to the conduct of the war. Mr. Dan was appointed to several positions in the state department and finally Presi dent Lincoln made him assistant secre tary of war. When the war was over he went to Chicago, and for a year acted as editor of the Republican. Then he returned to New York and organized the company which now publishes the New York Sun. The Sun was already an old-established journal, having first appeared in 1833, but Mr. Dana's own work and the picked men he placed about him at once transformed It into the leading paper of the day and established a reputation and a circulation which has since been the envy of all the other metropolitan newspapers. Senator Morgan Favors Annexation. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who has been making a visit of investiga tion to Hawaii, states that he has been more strongly convinced than ever in his own mind that the annexation of the islands in the right thing. He is happy that his visit to Honolulu has given him such a fund of information that he can debate with intelligence on the question when it comes up in the senate this fall. While he was considered an authority on Hawaiian mutters before by his colleagues, his right to that position will be fully rec ognized by ail during the coming session. NEWSY CONDENSATIONS. Gen. Carlos Ezeta, ex-president of San Salvador, was arrested at Oakland, Cal., to satisfy a landlord whom he owes $35. As the result of a lovers' quarrel Florence Glcason, aged 19, shot and killed her lover, John Peters and then shot herself, at Chicago. Miss Dailey, an invalid maiden lady living with John Conly's family, near Piketon, fell into an open fire and was fatally burned before being discovered. The London Daily Chronicle an nounces that the premier, Lord Salis bury, is about to retire owing to ill ness. Lord Salisbury denies the report. Lotta Crabtrec, better known as "Lotta,"' the actress, has sued Henry E. Abin'y, theatrical agent, of New York, for $20,000 and two years' inter est on promissory notes. Seven four-story wooden warehouses filled with tobacco, and eight dwellings were destroyed by fire at Durham, N C The total loss is $250,000. with $200,000 insurance. Over 3,500,000 pounds of tobacco burned. Associate Justice- Stephen Johnson Field of the-U. S. supreme court has made formal application to President McKinley to bo retired from the bench, under the law allowing members of that court to be retired when 70 years of age. Ill ward Langtry, the husband of Lily Laugtry, the actress, died in the asylum for the insane at Chester, Eng., to which ho was recently committed by a magistrate, having been found wandering in a helpless condition in that vicinity. Ex-Gov. Boies, who tried for the nomination for the presidency at the convention which nominated Bryan, in a letter to the Des Moines, la.. Leader says that gold is the basis of national currency and that the Chicago platform has had its day. The downpour of rain which was al most a deluge flooded the Schuylkill valley in Pennsylvania and the water rose six to eight feet in some of the streets of Reading. The people had to be rescued with boats. Several thou sand dollars damage was sustained. Four robbers held up an express train in daylight near Austin, Tex., und fatally shot Conductor Healy and wounded two passengers. The desper adoes secured $200 from passengers, but were unable to get the express safe open ns the express messenger had fled to the woods as soon as lie saw what was up. Gov. Hastings, of Pennsylvania, has received a letter from Secretary Sher man stating that the Austrian minister at Washington claims that there was a violation of rhrhts of Austrian subjects in the recent firing on the mob at Lat timer, Pa., when a score of miners were killed. Secretary Sherman re quests the facts and status of a.Tairs in relation to these cases. The international convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at Buffalo, N. Y., received reports that showed that in the Episcopal church in the United States there are 1,220 chapters with 12,000 members; in Canada, 212 chapters with 1,500 m:mbers; in Scot land, 12 chapters with 100 members; in Australia, 40 chapters with 350 mem bers. In England, where the move ment has but recently taken organized form, there are 39 chapters with 350 members. The heaviast October snowstorm ever known there has fallen at Crested Butte, Colo. A GIGANTIC STEAL. Wall Street to "IW I'ncle Sam for 30 000,000 by the I'nlon 1'aclllc Heat, The New York World publishes very sensational lengthy article on the workings of the Wall street street pool which is seeking to obtain control of the Union Pacific railroad. The World in substance says: A steal involving an immediate loss to the government of $20,000,000 and an ultimate loss of over $50,000,000 will bo consummated within the next 20 days unless President McKinley inter poses his authority and protects the people. The Union Pacific Railway Co. owes the government over $53,000, 000. A pool of Wall street bankers has engaged in a scheme of reorganization which contemplates the payment of 63 per cent to the government, or less than $33,000,000, while securities sub ordinate to that of the government will obtain 175 per cent upon their claims. All the legal rights which the government might avail of in the pur suit of the plunderers who rifled the company treasury are to be abandoned, and terms of sale have been fixed which absolutely bar every form of competition and give the pool a big prize. The World also publishes scan dalous rumors tracing a connection be tween this colossal steal and the sub scriptions of Wall street to the Hanna campaign fund of 189ft and the selec tion of at least one prominent cabinet official. Spanish Steamer Sank ISO Drowned. The coasting steamer Triton from Havana to Bahia Honda, province of Pinardel Rio, Cuba, was wrecked on the north coast of that province. The steamer went ashore during heavy weather, grounding about eight mile from the coast. The purser and one of the passengers reached Mariel and say they have no knowledge regarding the fate of the captain, 200' passengers, sol diers aud civilians, and the 30 members the crew of the Triton. The missing passengers Include several well-known merchants. The Spanish gunboat Maria Christina and tho tug Louise left Havana at once for the scene of the wreck. The two vessels brought back 42 of the members of the lost ship's company who relate that the first boat that was lowered when the boat struck the rocks capsized immedi ately and all of its occupants were drowned. The next was struck by an enormous wave and turned over, drowning 20, but the craft righted again and eight regained it. Those who were rescued tell heartrending stories of the scenes. Just as the Tri ton was sinking Capt. Ricardo, her commander, committed suicide,, by shooting himself. It is impossible to give the exact number of those lost, but it is estimated that they were no fewer than 150. Among whom were two navy and two army oflicers, a com missary official and 77 privates. On board the Triton was $31,(W0 in silver to be used for the payment of the Spanish military and naval forces,, be sides a large quantity of groceries aud ammunition for the army. Germany Wants Reciprocity. The Get man government is making preparations to open negotiations with tho United States for a reciprocity treaty. The matter is being thoroughly considered by the departments of the interior and finance, as well as in the foreign oflice. Ollicials are collecting and compiling statistics for ascertain ing not only tho effects of the new tariff of the United States upon the different branches of German industry, but with a view of the possibility of extending new branches of goods into the German exports. The police have discovered in Chi cago Louise Ripp, a 10-year-old girl, who was abducted at Paris, France, last March, by two famous crooTis. Tho London Daily News suys: "There is now a good prospect of tho speedy conclusion of a general arbitra tion treaty between Great Rritain and, the United States." THE MARKETS. LIVK STOCK. New York Cattle Sheep Lamtts Hops. Ilcst grades... f 7.y,tj 03 2 I 0 ti: Lower grades.. 3 "51 50 3 00 4 7 j 4 10 Chicago llest grades.... 5 OftrtS 2 4 25 5 81 4 0 Lower grades .2 7jrj4 7.S 2 50 4 23 3 7." Detroit Ilest grades.... 4 254 50 4 00 5 25 4 05 Lower grades.. 2 l 00 2 60 4 0J 3 8 Iluffalo Host grades.. ..4 501 8) 4 20 5 AO 41. Lower grades.. 2 50,4 00 2 5J 4 1 4 0 Cincinnati Hcst grades.... 4 2.V4 50 8 ill f 10 3M Lower grades.. 2 fcuftjH 0J 2 00 3 50 3 MO Cleveland Ilest graden....4 0iT$l 25 3 AO 5 25. 4 05. Lower grades. .2 ZWi 83 2 0J 4 0J 3 80 rittftlinrg Host grades.... flOI 8" 4 15 5 20. 4 1 Lower grades. 2 7.X&4 4.i 2 5 J 4.23 i 95 UK A IN, KTC. Wheat, Corn. Oatv No 2 red. No 2 mix No 2 white N'ewTork 05 WVi, 81 tf31 ?i 21 2t Chicago 0.1 9:1 25 25ft 22 22 "Detroit 92. 92'i 28 28 2-"-i&22K Toledo 9: Wft 2 25 31 32H4 Cincinnati 91 9t 20 2rtft 2) 20 Cleveland 9tK'ci'J2 2i 25 20 20 rittnlHirff DJ iJft 25'V(iJfl 21 S-I IlufTalo 0:i 93 2S 28 22 Detroit-1 lav. No. 1 tlmothv. fO.OO pr ton. FVitatoes, 4 c per bu. Live Poultry, miring chickens. 7c ier ll: fowl. tV: ducks, 7'ic; turkeys. He. l.g?s. strictly fresh. Irtc per Uoz. Uuttcr. dairy. lic per lb; creamery. Zic Fxperts investigating thA sales of sealskin in London, to obtain evidence for the use of the United States In the coming conference, have proof that 80 per cent of the skins sold by the Can adian companies are those of female seals, and that most of the animals were shot. President McKinley' deep interest in reciprocity and his determination foster American industry and com merce has led to the appointment of Hon. John A. Kasson, of Iowa, aa special commissioner to carry into effect the reciprocity features of tho Dinglcy bill.