THE 50KTBWE8TE&K. || mt » (*iuhi\ bom4 r«u \ - ner ?«f MHS l\ BRIlf. V • • j*1» <» r*j* * mg uvrr H.e np. tar* >4 Ileraaadei. A 'utfc outbreak of baboutr plagv.e b r'at Alexandria \te her death due to bubume La* iwrurred i*mvrna Tur key. Ha-1 to the depth of three lathe's f«.t m the a'Jtvt western suburb* «' 4'Lb apt f l.« Hater sttvoy* a T.l visit Omaha ina • pa «u*e* of I.a. than a quarter *< a i«mi The republbaa* of Kansas «iU tu t f-pm thetr speaking campaign until .**; • sAtr |. Kune breath banker* have offered u ******* fth.UUW.twd. m the Veneaue lan p imaea! Army < .fiber* in Havana Indignant ly deny the charge* that they are liv ing »*tra»a**«: >. Sir* Elisabeth lietning IHier King, who vac formerly a leader in New York society. m dead at the age of k? year* TIN senate cop mi*tee on finsrre ir tLor **d a favorable report on the h*m*e ton »rto«f the la* nn.ni tag the taxation ue beer «o as to elim Jetie Mb. A statement at the treasury bal ance* in the genera! fund, exclusive *4 u*e tlls.Me «»* gold reserve in :h* dm»ion at redemption on *ae soth. ► I »* Available i*l ilame* |1 *C - laS.lTY; gu*d fas.tc:, Tf.«. At spritflrd. 111., tonstderable rot stemaiton was text books in lio-h lan # am tea there have teeti intro dared. Admiral IVvej La* arranged to j leave Washington on June j for a trip that mill tarry him as far as Grand R—psds. Mich. It is a purely social trip in response to invitations issued some months ago by toe citizen* of three mestera cities mhtch Admiral U»ry had accepted bcfotf the an nouncement of his : andida* y for the i presidency. The trip has no political significance The attending physicians now cor- i re*t the impression 'hat Mrs. Glad- j •tone is paralyzed They say there has been no seizure and that her state is merely the result of eat feme weak ness. A H. • Shanghai • Pierce, the t attle kmg and H II Kirkpatrick. of Sher man. Teams have sold to Milton H. Smith, president of the Louisville A Nashville railroad, 1<* '«*' acres of Land fronting on West Galveston bay. Se. retary Hay has received a cable gram from Consul ' uine at Smyrna saying that the plague has made its apparrar. e at that port. Col. John H Stevens, the first white art tier in Minneapolis, is dead. He went to Minnesota and took up a farm overlooking St. Anthony Falls, in 1m9. At Phillip* Wi* * ue Flam!* i Pa per Company's mills were uestroved by fire, entailing a torn of Attorney General Smith has begun proceedings in the district court at Omaha to dissolve the i«e trust of That city. Aa order was iet-ued directing th * trust to show cause w hy an in junction should not be granted. The Cbo* tow tnbal autnonius, who attempted to collect th« tribal tax fr< m non-* itizen* at Sterret. I. 'ien countered resistance. H'Utrke Coc hrane of New York has made a donation of %**' to the work «*f th- Tuskegee notmai and industrial irstitatr at Tuskcgec, Ala. Some prtng The Cleveland Header rays ttiat Mark Hanna will not be chairman of the new national oommittre. iWtwrn cun a sleeping egr of the Miee<.-ar* Parifb train *>''h '.eft Kali an* «':*■ mere held up a • r» bt • d be tween Pa!la City. Xeiit. and St *11* by one highwayman J. ft. Sbowalter was renominated for imgrim by the republican* in the T«*c:j fnt district of Pennsylvania. Kansas want* 2tU** men to help ant*- ter cBtinaoui wheat crop. State Grata Inspector Mi krnxa says the ttat# will hari»->t l.uhCs and that the fcarveMiog »j|l begin ia southern Kansas by June 12. B’.igiar* bbw op*a me safe at the Clark Em hangs at Sturgeon. Mo., and (Hunt **.«** ta currency and escaped, leaving no rite. fifteen laborers la a foundry at Joeekarath. Germany, were deluged wtih liquid hot iron, seven died and the survivor* were horribly burned. Superintendent fiat id Griffith - of the Reput lie Iron and Steel eompnay's plant Springfield. III., received word frttas the company stating tk.t owing to shortage ia orders and a genera: duap in iron, the works at that place would be enclosed entirely June 1. and woold remain dosed for an indefinite time The supreme court of the l otted Male* has adjourned for the term and wfl not sit again until neat October. I It inn dir Heron, ea secretary of the infifnnn mate board of agriculture, is dmri at Indianapolis. He was born in Baltimore ia lt2S. and moved to Con ner* vtllr lnd.. in 1K35. Ex Queen Uiluokalina sailed for fionoituu on the steamer City o.' Pe kin. The ea-nueen does not look well, nod it ia said she is going borne to die. Aii the medics! skill of the ea.1 could siot hkir her and as sewn as the news wnx t'Token to her she decided to hasten home and end her days among her • si people. _ I Ax-.r emu Bnikt Believtd to Have Reach- j tii Filipino Lead r I*IS HCRSL COHRtD WiTfi BLOOD **O*' ■•frb.wHh Ortirlinirni of Thirty third Krgliurnt, thiriakm I iMturt;<-nL Tarty After ■ Llru k Aguiualdo's outpost about a mile outside ot Iji Gat. Killing tour 'ilipinos and capturing two. From he latter he learned that Aguinaldo had camped there for the night, al though exhausted and half starved. Major March's men entered La Gat on the run. They saw the insurgents Mattering into the bushes or over the plateau. A thousand yards beyond the town, on the mountain side, the fig ures of twenty-five Filipinos, dress ed in white, with their leader on a gray horse, were silhouetted against the sunset. The Americans flred a vol ley and saw the officer drop from his horse. His followers fled, carrying the body. The Americans, on reaching the spot, caught the horse, which was rt( hly saddled. Blood from a badly wounded man was on the animal and on the ground. The saddle bags con tained Aguinablo’s diary and some • papers, including proclama tions. One of these was addressed: “To the Civilized Nations." It pro tested against the American occupa tion of the Philippines. There were also found copies of Senator Bever idges speech, translated into Spanish, and entitled “The Death knell of the Filipino People.'* Major March, believing that the Fil- | ipinos had taken to a river which is i a Tributary to the Chico, followed il ! for two days, reaching Tiao. where he i learned that a party of Filipinos had d* - ended the river May 21* on a raft, j w:rh the body of a dead or wounded ' man upon a litter, covered with palm leaves. There Major March reviewed his mman I. shoeless and exhausted, and pi ked out twenty-four of the fresh- j est men. v ith w hom he beat the sur rounding country for six days longer, but without finding any trace of the insurgents. The Americans pushed on and arrived at Aparri May 29. The officer shot was either Agul naldo or h:s adjutant, and as the horse was richly caparisoned it is a fair pre-umj tion that it was Aguinaldo. UIARTH Of PRETORIA NEWS. CoBi rritatof Opinion iliut (lie Boer* Will Ssmndcr. IX1NDON, June 4.-4 a. m.—There is no dire« t news from Pretoria of later date than Thursday evening. General French'* cavalry were then at Irene, eigbt miles south of Pretoria, and firing was heard there. Lord Roberts' mes sage about secondary operations else where and the situation at Johannes burg. dated at Orange Grove, a farm four miles northeast of Johannesburg, show that on Saturday at 9:10 p. m. he was twenty-nve miles from Preto ria. The correspondents with Ixird Rob erts have not got through a line about th» operations after the occupation of Johannesburg. Official messages con tinue to come through, but press tele grams are held up. probably to avo.»d their giving even a hint as to what may be the 'tending operations. From the other siuc and their followers through I.ourenzo Marque* comes a mass of statements, some contradictory, others obviously improbable, but ail purport ing to be facts. Boring .trtmian Welt*. PIERRE. S. D., June 4.—S. A. Coch rane. state engineer of irrigation, has returned from bulljr county, where he located sites for two artesian wells in t*ear! township. It is expected to have ihe wells flowing before winter. An other well is being sunk in Sully coun ty on the ranch of C. D. Banton. east of Onida, and the wells just located will make four for the county. The well sunk last year on the King ranch, near Onida. has demonstrated that the artesian flow ean be secured in that county in sections where the different geological survey* have demonstrated bv theory that such wells could not be •ecured. Itrllit Ko* U ln**nv. NEW YORK, June 4.—Della May Ftrx. th«* well known actress, was com mitted by Justice Me Adam in the su preme court today to the insane asy lum at Wave Crest. Astoria. L. I., on th«* petition of her brother. William II. Fox. and on the evidence of Drs. Au-tin Flint, jr.. and Edward D. Fish I er. whi h showed that she is laboring under delusions. Uif-h Zinc Strike In Kdim). GALENA. Kan.. June 3.—What is represented to be the rickest jack strike ever made is reported from one of the properties of the Combination Zinc j Mining company's properties. At a depth of sixty-two feet drillers on the i Sadie Hell shaft ran into 25 per cent jack and are said to have gone through | ten feet solid Seely Taper* arc Maned. NEW YotiK. .June 4.—Governor Roosevelt has signed the Neely extra i dition papers and they were forwarded to Washington tonight. ('lark's Body at St. I.oula. ST. LOUIS, June 4.—The special car from Asheville, N. C., bearing the body of the late S. H. H. Clark, former pres ident of the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific railroad systems, arrived in this city at S o'clock tonight. It was met by a large number of railroad officials, friends and relatives of the deceased. The car was at once attached to the special train of the Missouri Pacific which is to carry the funeral party to Omaha, where the burial will take place tomorrow afternoon. INDIA’S DEPLORABLE CONDITION. - Lout* Klop*cli Makes St itrmcnt of •Sp'-nes in E’>glauri's Drpenileucy. BOMBAY, June 3.—Ixtuis Klopsch of New York, publisher cf the Chris tian Herald, who arrived here May 14 and started at once on a tour of the (amine stri ken districts, has re turned. after traveling through the most severely smitten portions of the Bombay presidency, including Gujer rat and Barolda. He makes the fol lowing statement regarding his obser vations: "Everywhere I met the most shock ing and revolting scenes. The famine camps have been swept by cholera and smallpox. Fugitives, scattering in all directions and stricken in flight, were found dying in the fields and roadside ditches. The numbers at one relief j station were Increasing at ihe rate of 10.000 per (lav. '"At Godhera there were 3.000 deaths from cholera within four days, and at Dohad 2.500 in the same period The hospital death rate at Godhera and Dohad was 90 per cent. The con dition of the stricken simply beggars description. Air and water were im pregnated with an intolerable stench of corpses. At Ahmedabad the death rate in the poor house was 10 *»er cent. Every day I saw new patients placed face to face with corpses. In every fourth cot there was a corpse. "The thermometer read 115 in the shade. Millions of flies hovered around the uncleaned dysentery pa tients. I visited the smallpox and cholera wards at Viragam. All the patients were lying on the ground, there being no cots. Otherwise their condition was fair. "I can fully verify the reports that the vultures, dogs and jackals are de vouring the dead. Dogs have been seen running about with children’s limbs in their jaws. "The government is doing its best, but the native oulcials are hopelessly and heartlessly inefficient. Between the famine, the plague and the chol era the condition of Bombay presi dency is now worse than it has been at any previous period in the nine teenth century. Whole families have J been blotted out. The spirit of the people has been broken and there may be something still worse to come when the monsoon breaks." MYRCH TO GATES OE PEKIN. in _____. Armed Bodies of Seven Nutious Will De mand AUmi-ciion to the City. TIEN TSIN. June 4.—A special train started for Pekin this atteruoon with i the following forces: I Americans, seven officers and flfty | six men. British, three officers and seventy two men. Italians, three officers and thirty ; nine men. French, three officers and seventy two men. Russian, four officers and seventy one men. Japanese, two officers and twenty ; foui men. The foreign contingent also took with it five quick-firing guns. It is rumored that foreign troops will b? opposed at the first gate of the Chi nese capital, outside the wall. Promotions in the volunteer army: I All of the Thirty-first infantry—Ma jor Lloyd M. Brett, to he lieutenant colonel; Captain C. P. Stivers, to be major; First Lieutenant Benjamin Stark, jr.. to be captain; Second Lieu tenant Wilford Tw.vman. to be first lieutenant; also Sergeant D. W. Strong, company A. Thirty-fifth infan try, to be second lieutenant. ST. LOUS SINDAY RECORD. — Dynamite i:\plosiori Stops Car Line and Kills Bystander. ST. LOUIS. Mo., June 4.—A riot of small proportions, during the progress of which a boy was fatally shot and a d> namite explosion marred what would have otherwise have been an unevent ful Sabbath. As a car on the lower Grove line of the St. Louis Transit company was passing the corner of Twenty-eighth and Calhoun streets a crowd of strike sympathizers began throwing rocks at it. An unknown man leaned from one of the windows of the car and fired a shot from a revol ver toward the unruly crowd. The bul let sped over the heads of the mob and found lodgment in the breast of Peter Frank, a lG-year-old boy who was sit ting in the doorway of his father's house, an interested spectator of the demonstration. A detachment of police dispersed the rioters and carried young Frank to the city hospital. The physi cians say that the wound will prove fatal. KruRer Near the Border. LCURENZO MARQUEZ. June 3.— Saturday, "President i^ruger was still at Machadodorp, about half way between Pretoria and the Portuguese frontier, on the railroad between the Transvaal capital and Delagoa bay. Boer com mands totaling about 10,000 men held Thursday all the position and hills around Pretoria. Another large com mand was at Bronkhurst's spruit, about fifty miles from Pretoria, on the rail road leading to Delagoa bay. iirur £ ivoys at Clevelantl. CLEVELAND, O., June 4—The Boer envoys arrived here at 11 o’clock to night from Buffalo. They were met at the train by a big reception committee and delegation of citizens on foot and in carriages and headed by a ba^rr passed through the principal downtown streets. Tomorrow evening the en voys will address a mass meeting at the Gray's armory. Fatal Wreck at l ima. LIMA, O., June 3.—This afternoon about 3 o’clock as an eastbound freight train on the Lake Erie & Western road was running at full speed, about eighteen miles this side of Sandusky City, the tires came off of one of the driving wheels, ditching the engine and piling about twenty cars on top of it. Fireman Enoch Bowsher and Head Brakeman J. W. Purtell, who were in the engine, were crushed to death, and Engineer Harry Bell had a leg broken and was seriously hurt internally. The men killed and En gineer Bell live here. ! Highwayman still at Large. RAYMOND. Cal., June 4.—The lune highwayman who yesterday held up three Yosemite stages and two wagons and two United States cavalrymen is still at large. Additional details re veal that the number of people held up was thirty-two, twenty-seven men and five women. Major Rucker and Captain Wood, United States army, with sixty men of Troop F, who were on the way to Yosemite, reached the scene just as the robber was about tc open the express box. Seeing the troopers he disappeared iu the bush. 4 BOERS HOLD PRETORIA Siege of the Capital of the Transvaal. However, in Progress. THE PEACE COMMITTEE OVERRULED General liottia ami Followers Probably Determined to Fight On — Nothing From Lord Roberts for a Day—C011 llictiug Reports of the Situation Are iieatd at Loureuzo Marquez. -J— LONDON, June 2.—Lord Roberts continues silent regarding Pretoria. Loureuzo Marquez, where all the news from the Boer side is rehandled, cables that communication with Pre toria is now suspended. Some messages by courier have .'eaehed Loureuzo Marquez, but none of later date than Wednesday. These assert that the burghers are in a state •Ml panic and that Pretoria is being controlled by a vigilance committee. Lourenzo Marquez again senus the report that President Kruger has been captured. The news blank gives rise to a sus picion tnat a citizens' committee a; Pretoria may not have been able to carry out its plans for securing the peaceful entry of Lord Roberts and sparing the city the horrors of a siege. A piece party appeared to be in the ascendant a.nd as soon as President Kruger and his cabinet left Pretoria to organize u new capital the citizens’ committee persuaded the commandants of tlie forts to withdraw some of the troops from the defenses, perhaps with the view of keeping order in the town. If messengers were sent to the Brit ish or the British, being two hours' march from Pretoria ou Wednesday, entered it at any time prior to Friday noon. Lord Roberts would certainly have telegraphed this fact. Hence it looks, as though there was a Boer force between Pretoria and Johannesburg. These soldiers, trekking back toward Pretoria, some of them fresh from the fight with General Hamilton, would have brought a new element into the situation and probably have overruled the peace committee, taking the direc tion of affairs out of their hands. If this has happened the British may. as the Daily Chronicle says, see some “hard fighting” beiore the British flag flies over Pretoria, for if the Boers held only three forts standing close together on the hills south of the town they would be in a position to stand a siege. The Boers, according to a special dis patch from Lourenzo Marquez, have re-entered the northeastern territory of the Free State and are engaged with the British near Vcntersburg and Har rismith. It is reported from Amsterdam that the best rooms at one of the principal hotels there have been engaged for President Kruger’s occupancy from June 25. The Times has the following from Lourenzo Marquez, dated June 1: “Reports of the most conflicting character are current here, due to the activity of the Boer agents. While one section declares that President Kruger has returned to Pretoria for the pur pose of arranging terms of surrender, another asserts that the British have been repulsed outside of Pretoria. Nothing autnentic is known here re garding Mr. Kruger’s whereabouts or the situation in the Transvaal.” EIJNDS TO TIGHT THE PlAGtE. Men of San Francisco Start Ont to Collect Money. SAN FRANCISCO. June 2—In or der to set at rest all reports that there is further danger from the bu bonic plague and to protect their business interests the merchants of this city have decided to raise $50,000, which is to be expended in purifying the Chinese quarter. At a meeting this afternoon $30,000 was subscribed and a committee appointed to increase the amount to $50,000. More money will be raised if it is necessary, as the business men are in earnest and announce their purpose of prosecut ing the work of cleansing to such an extent that no one can say the slightest trace of plague remains. The Trust Amendment Defeated. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The house of representatives today, after a lively debate extending over two days, de feated the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment empowering congress to regulate trusts. It requires a two-thirds vote under the constitu tion to adopt an amendment to the I constitution. The vote stood: Ayes. 154; nays, 131. The affirmative vote, therefore, was thirty-eight short of the requisite two-thirds. 192. Five democrats, Campbell of Mon tana, Naphen of Massachusetts. Scud der of New York. Sibley of Pennsylva nia and Thayer of Massachusetts, and one silverrte, Newlands of Nevada, vtoed with the republicans for the res olution and two republicans. Loud of California and McCall of Massachu setts, with the democrats. These were the only breaks from party lines. The populists voted solidly against the res olution. fimiiHii Sngnr Trust’s M'«*rk. MADGEBURG. Prussia. June 2.—As the German Sugar trust starts opera tions today the refineries have with 1rawn all their offers from the mar ets. There will be no further sales or twelve days, then the trust will the prices for home trade. Hnrr antv*ent:itiv^ Levy I’roptjse* Plan for Ace Jtintiug for Money. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Represen tative Levy of New York today intvo duced the following bill in the house: “That on and after the passage of this act the power vested in the com missioner general of the United States to the Paris exposition of 1900 to em ploy experts and other necessary offi cers or clerks and to disburse appro priations incident to the participation of the United States in said exposition is hereby transferred to the secretary ! of state, who^hall make such appont ments and disburse such money as may | be now or hereafter appropriated. “The commissioner general for the United States to the Paris exposition ! of 1900 is hereby directed to render a monthly report to the secretary of | state of the number of employes, their occupation and salaries. That the re port authorized under the act of June 30. 1S99, giving the results of the expo ; sitian. shall be prepared under the di j rection of the secretary of state.” DISFRANCHISING THE NEGRO. i — Senate ComnlttW Likely to Investigate Conditions in the South. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The senate | committee on privileges and elections i today had under consideration Senator | Pritchard's resolution declaring exclu | sion from the privilege of the franchise | because of race to be unconstitutional. ! The committee decided to recommend 1 the adoption of a substitute directing l the committee to investigate whether | such exclusion is antagonistic to the constitution. The substitute passed the committee by a party vote and if it ! is agreed to by the senate the investi j gation will be undertaken by the com j mittec. — R» tik Robber* Arrested. I CHICAGO. June 2.—Three men, said to be known to the police all over the United States and Canada as expert safe blowers, were arrested in their apartments at Ogden avenue and Ash land boulevard today, after a hard struggle. The men under arrest are Frank Dwyer, alias Rutledge, of On tario. Canada, wno has served time at Canon City. Colo., for safe robbery; Thomas Jons and Fred Harris. The men are wanted for the alleged rob bery of two banks at Aurora, a town near Toronto, Canada, where they are said to have secured $900. and several thousand dollars worth of mining stock. Meviro's CitpitHl Fears PUjor. CITY OF MEXICO. June 2.—The president of the republic, at the in stance of the board of health, has au thorized additions to the general sani tary code of Mexico, with a view to prevent the introduction of the bubonic plague. Any vessels carrying persons who are plague-stricken or any vessel that in the last ten days has touched at a port where plague exists is to go ; into quarantine off Vera Cruz if ap ! proaching the gulf ports, or off Aca ! pulco if approaching the Pacific coast. | The quarantine is to continue up to ten days and all wearing apparel and | effects are to be disinfected. . --- ----— I Robfrtu » Cheyenne Boy. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 2.—Cap ; tain Charles H. Roberts of the Thirty I fifth volunteer infantry, who. with two of his men. is reported to have been captured by the Filipinos near San Miguel de Mayo, was reared in Chey enne. Ho is a son of Lieutenant Col j one! Cyrus S. Robertc. He was grad j uated from the Cheyenne High school 1891 and was appointed tc West 1 Point in 1894 and was graduated with 1 high honors two yea^3 ago. rhrlttlan* Mnrdrrxl Dally. LONDON, June 2.—The Pekin cor respondent of the Times, telegraphing j Wednesday, says: “The damage to the | railroad is estimated at £30.000. The government supports rather than con demns the ‘Boxers.* Not one has been arrested yet. No foreigner has been seriously injured, though murders of native Christians are reported daily from the country.” In Keorpuii/imr Militia. FRANKFORT. Kv., June 2.—Gover nor Beckham this afternoon issued an order mustering out ten companies of the state guard. All except two of them are located in mountain towns and were among those mustered into service during the political excitement just before and immediately following the state election last fall. It is un derstood that a number of other com panies are also to be disbanded, as the governor holds that the various regiments nowr have double their quota of companies in them. Fifteen British Are Killed. CAPETOWN. June 2.—General War ren, with 700 men, occupied a strong defensive position at Fabersput on May 29. At dawn he found that he was surrounded and he was fiercely attacked by 1,000 rebels. The horses were stampeded, but the force concentrated and the Boers were repulsed. A small party in a garden continued to fight tenaciously, but evacuated as the charge began, leav ing a number of wounded. The British lost fifteen killed. In cluding Colonel Spence, and thirty wounded. ' THE MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. | I - ! Quotations From New Ycrfc. Chicago, South Omaha anti El ice where. SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK. SOUTH OMAHA. June A.—CATTLE— This market on all kinds of killing cattle was in exceedingly good shape as com pared with other markets. There was a good deal said about the market because of its lateness, buyers hanging back, but when the market did open it was very active and the cattle were all sold in lair season at prices that would compare most favorably with every other maraet. In fact there is .10 other market in the country any better than this market. Beet steers. $5.25#3.lU; cows, $_.5b#4.40: cows and heilers $4.10#4.50; hellers, *4.10vi 1.50; heifers. $2.u0?i 4.60; bulls. $3.25#4.20; calves. $5.i>0#ti.75: stags. $3.35 #4.lo; stock cows and neifers, $2.75#4.U5; stockers and ft'dors. $3-5**#4.50. HOoa—Keceipts were ot pretty good size, but there was an active demand and at the same time a more encourag ing outlook in eastern markets, so tnat the market here opened 21*#5c higher. At the tunning hogs sold largely at $4>5 #4.874. then ii strengthened uv> and for a time good loads commanded $4,874# 4 90. A little later t’huago came easier anti the market at tide point eased off again and closed about where it opened. SHEEP—There were seven carloads of Colorado lambs and three loads ot clipped western iambs in the yarus, besides tour loads of sheep bought on the Kansas City market and shipped direct to pack ers." Quotations: Cupped wethers, fed. $5.0)# 5.10: clipped yeaning*, ted, $5.00# 5.4u: clipped ewes, good to choice, fed. $4.3.>#4.75: fair to good clipped ewes. $4.u0 #4.35; good to choice A uiorado wooled lambs. ?7.0e#7.25: fair to gootl Colorado wooled lambs, Jti.SSf'7.0,1; got.d to choice clippetl lambs, $5. i5#<>.00; lair to good clipped lambs, $5.35#5.60. KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK. KANSAS CITY, June 4.—CATTLE— Good killers, steady; common grassers, shade easier; heavy native steers, $4.55# r.Uo; stockers ai.u feeders, $3.75# 5.25; butchers 'cows and heiters. $3.25# 4.541; canners. $2.75#3.2>; fed westerns, $4.20# 4.75: 'lexans. $3.35414.60. HOGS?—Market a.five, 5# hi- higher; heavy. 4$.:5#5.u5: i.Hxed, $4.8,4#5.00; light, $4.85#4.924: pigs. $4.tin#4.80. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Good demand, firm prices; spr.ng lambs. $ti.75,i7.25; clip ped Iambs, $5.(0# 7.. 73; clipped muttons, $4.75t;5.33; grassers. $4.*-0-i4.t»5; feeders, $3.50#4.50; culls. $3 00#LOO. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET. CHICAGO. June 4 -CATTLE—Butch ers' stock slow and shade lower; best on sale today, live cars Kansas at $5.20; na tives. good to prime steers. $4.00#4.60; poor to medium. fL4 #4.M); selected feed ers. $4.25#4.95: mixed stockers S3.504t4.I0; cows. $3.00: stockers. $4.25: heifers, $3.15# 4.65; earners. $2.1 ■ #2.90; l>ulls. $2.75414.25; calves. $5.00#7.tv»; Texes, fed steers. $4.50 #5.10; Texas grass steers, $3.75'«i4.4U; Tex as bulls 53.10# 3.0-1. HOGS—Strong to 5- higher; closing weak: top. $5.23: mixed and butchers. $5.<<0#5.20: gootl to choice heavy. $5.1047 5.20; rough heavy. $4.95# 5.05: lights, $4.95 #5.174; bulk of sales, $5.1->#5.15. SHEEP AND LA M tiS—Sheep and I: mbs. weak to luc lower, except for choice: rood to 1 hoice wethers. $3.00# 3.50: fair to choice mixed, $4.25-.5.00; west er?! sheep. $5. TO# 5.40; yearlings, $5.40#’ 5.90: native lambs. $5.00#7.0‘; western iambs. $*v«i#7.k>; spring lambs, lies;, steady, others weak, at $5.00#7.30. NEW YORK GRAIN MARKET. NEW YORK. June 4.—WH EAT—Spot, steady: No. 2 red. 8:’4o. f. o. b., afloat, spet. nominal: No. 2 red. 7.-„c in eleva tor; No. 1 northern. Duluth, 75c, f. o. b.. afloat, prompt: No. I hard. Duluth, 774c. afloat, to arrive. CORN—Closed steady at unchanged prices; July. 42 l-k#42 5-16c, closing at 4 4c; September. 424# 424c. closing at 424c. At ATS—Spot, quiet: No. 2, 2G4c: No. 3, 2tic: No. 2 white. 27,«c: No. 3 white. 27c; on track, mixed western. 264# 28c; on track, white. 27#344c. Options slow and featureless. — SAYS MEAT BILL WILL BE LAW. German Ambassador Thinks Iliuidesmtli Will 1’ass It. CHICAGO, June 4—John W. Spring er, president of the National Live Stock association, which represents an in vested capital of $600,000, has returned from Washington, where he saw the German ambassador and notified him that should the German bundesrath see fit to pass the meat bill recently adopt ed by the reichstag. the United States congress would retaliate with a meas ure which would affect German inter ests to the extent of millions of dollars each year. "In reply,” said Mr. Springer, "the ambassador said the reichstag bill was the result of a compromise between the crown and the agrarian interests, the former being compelled to secure need ed appropriations for the imperial navy, and furthermore, he was rather certain—he put all this n his diplo matic way. of course—that the bundes rath would also pass the reichstag measure. “Then I notified the ambassador that the United States would certainly adopt retaliatory measures against Germany as a means of self-defense: that German merchants would suffer more in the end than the live sto^k and packing interests of the United States. After leaving the ambassador 1 drafted a bill, which was afterward introduced in the house of representa tives by Congressman Bailey of Texas, defining the new policy of the United States." .lane Wiley Lloyd Wins. CHICAGO. June 4.—The second trial of the case of Jane Wiley Lloyd against the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias involving the intoxicant clause in the insurance policies of that order, resulted today in a verdict of $3,475 for the plaintiff. Judge Kohl saat in the United States circuit court rendered the decision. A policy for $3,000 was issued to Walter Lloyd in I8S9. He died.in March. 1897, and the supreme lodge refused to pay because his death was said to have resulted from intoxicants. It was claimed that this provision was not in Mr. Lloyd’s policy, and that it was inserted two years later. The court of appeals re versed the first judgment on that ground, that the clause was retroactive. Namrd by the President. WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 4.— Nominations by the president today: Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas, to be a commissioner to negotiate with the Indians of the Cherokee, Choctaw. Chickasaw. Muscogee (or Creek) and Seminole nations, vice A. S. McKennon. resigned. l*ubllo Debt Statement. WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 4.—The monthly statement of the public debt show's that at the close of business May 31, 1900, the debt, less cash in th* treasury, amounted to $1,122,608,811, a decrease for the month of $2,193,274, which is accounted for by the redemp tion af bonds. The debt is recapitu lated as follows: Interest bearing debt, $1,026,482,990; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,181,880; debt bearing no interest, $390,727,479; total, $1,418,392,128. General Strike 1m Ordered. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. June 4.—A general strike of all the building trades in Kansas City tomorrow morn ing was effected tonight at a meeting yt the Building Trades council. It is said that over 5.000 workmen will be involved. The strike order follows the lock nut declared about two w’eeks ago by the Builders’ club, an organization of :ontractors. The contractors, after continued troubles with sympathetic strikes, announced that no members of unions affiliated with the Building Trades council would be employed. 1 4 . Better Blood Better Health If you don’t feel wall today you can bo made to feel better by making your blood bettor. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the great pure blood maker. That is how it cures that tired feeling, pimples, sores, salt rheum, scrofula and catarrh. Get a bottle of this great medicine and begin taking it at once and see how quickly it will bring your blood up to the Good Health point. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Blood Medicine. DISEASE NEW TO SCIENCE. The Canker Which Killing Apple Tree*. There are some diseases of the ap ple that affect the fruit only, and thera are others that destroy the trees. The New York apple tree canker is of the latter class. Its insidiousness is in creased by the fact that in its fir.it stages it is exceedingly inconspicuous, and the first sign of trouble, except to practiced eyes, is the withering of the leaves that announces the death of limb or tree. Experts in the New York agricultural experiment station in Geneva have been investigating this killing disease and have issued a pam phlet announcing how it should be treated. Though the disease is new to science, having been under inves tigation only two years, vet it is like ly that there are few orchards in the state where it cannot be found. This canker is caused by the same tiny plant, or fungus, as that which pro duces the black rot of the apple,quince and pear fruits. These spores, like those of all fungi, germinate in any moist place in which they happen to fall, and this usually takes place in the spring. The countless spores are scattered by the winds, and seed new areas with the disease when the spring’s warmth germinates them. As to the prevention of the canker, -what is known as the Bordeaux mixture is declared to be the almost infallible specific for the trouble. If a limb is bady affected by canker it should be cut off and burned. In regions where canker is severe it will be well to sup plement all these measures by wash ing the trees with whitewash; a wash of whale oil soap (one pint), slacked lime (three pints), water (four gal lons), and wood ashes to thicken as desired; or some similar mixture with gas tar added.—New York Press. WAS TRUE BLUE And Wllllnc to Overlook Any of His Minor Shortcoming:*. “The time has come for me to speak.” he said, going over to the mantelpiece and lean'ng his head ab stractedly against the cold, hard brick. “My dear, before we are mar ried, and while there is yet time to pause, my conscience bids me tell you the truth about myself. I have * deceived you. I am not the noble hearted, unselfish, refined, and alto gether desirable man you have been led to believe. I have deceived you even about my age. Not only am I forty, instead of thirty-four, but I am a widower. I stay out nights when T feel like it. I smoke all over the house, am a crank about my meals, find fault all the time, hector the ser vants. never go anywhere to oblige anyone else, drink more than I ought to, swear regularly, and, in fact, am a vulgar, disagreeable, hidebound, gruff, inhospitable, irritable, inconsid erate, insufferable nuisance.” “Tell me,” said the fair creature he address ed, repressing with a conscious look of pride an inward shudder, “you own the house and grounds that you showed me, don't you?” “I do.” "And the beautiful government bonds you asked me to look at, the 500 shares of D. A. B., the 200 X. Y. Z., the 400 U. P. W. debentures, and four acres in the heart of the Manhattan shopping district are all yours, aren't they?” “They are, dearest.” "Then." said the undismayed, and still radiant creature by his side, “my darling, with all your faults, I love you still.”—Life. The Value of a Title. The following story of the late Sir John Millais is contributed by Lord James of Hereford, to a recently pub lished biography of the great English artist: Shortly after his title was con ferred upon him Millais paid a profes sional visit to Manchester. Upon his return, addressing some friends in his cheery way, he said: “You fellows think it is nothing to be made a baco net, but I can tell you that it means a great deal, and I like it. Here you see I went to the hotel in Manchester, and 1 said to a beautiful young person at the office counter: 'I want a bed room with a fire in it.’ Off she went to a pipe and said: ‘Whist! No. 238, and a fire.’ She then asked me to write my name, which I did. Looking at me she said: 'Are you Sir John Millais?’ Upon my answering ‘Yes,’ back to the same pipe she went and said: ‘Whist, No. 23S. No. 23, and a good fire in it.' Now you see the use of being a baro net. my boys!”—St. Louis Globe Democrat. _ lie Liked “.loan of Arc.” An amusing little story is told in Civics by a worker on the East Side. She had taken a party of children to the art museum, and a few days later a boy said shyly: “I told me mother about the picture we saw at the muse um and she said she wished she could see it, too.” The teacher asked what picture he meant. “Was it ‘Columbus Before Isabella’ or ‘Washington Cross ing the Delaware?’ ” The boy answer ed promptly. “Oh. no, ma’am. The girl in an old dress standin’ under a tree, listenin’. The one that went to. war and saved her country. I forgot the name of her. Oh. yes; I remember now’. It was ‘Noah’s Ark.’ ”—Detroit Free Press. What We're All Coining; To. Chronicle-Telegraph: “What, mind ing the baby?” said Northside, as he entered Manchester’s home and found his friend agitating the cradle. “Yes,” replied Manchester. “I’ve got down to bedrock.” Same Old Story. Harper’s Bazar: First Deaf Mute— “We all have our troubles.” Second Deaf Mute—“That’s so; I have to tie my wife’s hands so sha won’t talk in her sleep.”