' *E k .P‘ana, 111.,
"""'»'fTanner ’s Orders to Keep
Them Out of Pena. '
' cIiIIte'm'ent FolloWing a Report. That the
, Trill!) Load \Yhich , Caused the Vlrden
3" Riot Was Coming. State Troops ”on
Duty There and at Virden.
Oct. 15. -—-A telegram has
been received from Virden saj ing that
'- in all probability Manager Lukens of
the Chicago-Virden Ocal Company
would attempt to land at Pana the 1111-.
ported negroes who, after a bloody
riot, were shut out of' Virden. '1 ,5;
A conference was immediately'.;._héld_j_l-
. by telephone between Captain Harris
of Company G, Aurora, Ill.,'-commar1d—
ing the militia herb, and Adjutant Gen-
eral Reese. and Governor Tanner at
Springfield. ' ., r: »
The conference lesult'ed in the grim
ernor ordering Captain Harris imme—
:Idiatcly to put on a guard at each 0f
the coal mines and at the approaches
of rach railroad in Pana, and under no
ci: um'stances to permit any imported
11' :roes to land in '.'Pana:
.‘1.
- ‘aptain Harris has only fifty— seven
run .under his command and he was
dered to call on citizens to assist him .
if necessary.
The union miners; thrOugh their pres-
Iident, G. G. Cravins, immediately Vol-
unteered their services, Other citizens
also volunteered their aid.
Captain Harris told them to be in
readiness where he could find them.
Thereupon the miners assembled in:
Waiting for a call to1arms, while Cap—
, 1.“ tain Harris immediately followed the
, governor’s instructions and placed a
guard at each mine and railroad cress-
ing. In an interview Captain Harris
-said:
"The governor' 5 orders Shall be strict-
1y obeyed, and if any negroes are
brought into Pana while I am in charge“
and they refuse to retreat when 'order-
ed to do so, I will order my men to.
fire. All armed guards will be similarly
dealt with. The governor ’s orders will
be strictly obey ed. If' I lose every man
under my command, no negroes shall
__land in Pana."
The reported coming of negroes caus- ;
ed the most intense excitement and mi-
nets and other citizens generally at
once got ready to aid Captain Har—
-ris. .- 4K " .7 "e ..
L 'Virden', Ill.. Oct. 15.—Colonel Young’s
Illinois cavalry yesterday relieved -Bat-
tery B of guard duty. in the city. Col-
onel Young is ranking oflicer and will
be in Command of all the troops here.
,but will, not assume his duties until
he has looked the ground over and held
“a consUltation with the mine officials
and Captain Craig- and Fevier, who
have been in command since troops
fir st ordered here.
All trains with freight or passengers
stopping here are carefully searched
for negroes. Two hundred members of
the First cavalry and Third infantry
under command 'of Colonel Young, ar-
rived yesterday, and 175 more are ex-
.pected.- These, with the 128 men in the
Galesburg battery. and Elgin company
of the Sons of eterans, will give Colo-
nel Young a force of more than five
hundi ed men. " ‘
The arrival of colonel I‘Youngs com-
mand has caused a feeling among the
strikers in this place that the negroes
will be kept out.
_ Some of the militiamen have been on
duty nearly twelve hours without any—
thing to eat. The rations of Colonel
Young‘s command had been left he-
hind at Springfield and they will have
to depend on the local baker for bread
:until the 1emainder of the cbmmand
arrives with supplies.
There are only two small bakeries in
the town and they have been badly
rushed during: the last two days on
account oflarg e numbeis 'of outsiders,
WhO have ar1ived here. 2::
The engineer on a freight train 2'0-
ing north yesterday was badly fright—
ened. Apparently the. freight had 01-
ders not to stop at Virden and ran at
high speed inside the yards. Suddenly
there was a loud report from a torpedo
on the tracks, a signal used by the mi-
litia to bring the trains to a stand—
still.
The engineer either did not hear the
report or decided to go ahead and
pay no attention to it, for the train
gathered 1speed.
There came other reports, this time.
from a couple of rifles in the hands of
the soldiers on the station platform.
The engineer, with a very white face.'-
quickly applied the brakes. After the
cars had‘ been searched the train Was
allowed to continue on its journey to
the north. . 1;.
201111 N Y. Men Complain.
Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, Oct.
15. —The men in the 201st New York
regiment» are in' a state of semi-mutiny
and threaten trouble if they are not
given b'etté'r treatment.
They complain that they are 3 not
‘ properly fed and that; they were given
nothing for dinner yesterday but meat
and coffee. ‘
The men have had no bread for 2'4
hours. because there is nobody in the
regiment Who knows how to use the
fier ovens and the chief commissary
officers insist that each regiment must
bake: the bread for its oIWn men. ‘ - ~ .
The new Y’orkers have not been paid
since they reached here, the officers be-
ing afraid that they will take French
leave éand go home to visit their
friendsI.I ‘ ‘ "
1.3., ...
IBlcycllst Robbed by Foolpnds.
Hackensack,‘ N. J., Oct. 15. —-Alberl
VVortendyke, son of John J. Worten-
dyIke, proprietor of the Oradell hotel,
was attacked "by three highw'aymen
while riding home on his bicycle from
here last night.
The 'men knock the young fellow
off his Wheel and then struck him on
the head: with a black jack, rendering
him unconscious. I
The highwaymén robbed their victim
, of 38' in money. " '
--'l‘o Comma 'd. , Pd"'I"'llc Station.
San- Francis‘cS‘ —-Commodore
Kautz, appointed to command the Pa.-
cific station in place of Admiral Mil-
ler, retired, has arrived here.
_- -_..._. ”.0... -y
I
Ibeen 4,101,770 bushels, against 4,886,015
for the'same week last year.
and with the decrease in quantity of
:unsold -st0cks '
‘larger than in 1897, or about eight per
an able manner by Captain Allen. In‘
. on a steamship.
' except in regard to the delay which
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,
00le WEEKS; Review. '
Business in All Lines in Active and
Ale Fairly Good.
New York, Oct. 15. —_-—It has nevel.‘
tory quarterly report of failures dur-
ing the five years which are covered
_II_-"-byD the returns made. exclusively by
this paper than can be made for the
past quarter.
While a very few heavy failures still I
swell the aggregate fer,the last quar—
ter, those in real estate brokerage 0*.
speculation alone counting for mom
than 11 per cent, of the aggregate,
with as muchmore in operations not
at all reflecting the general state of
business, the aggregate was neverthe-
less smaller than inany other month
covered by our returns for many' bran-
ches of business.
In some branches the fai1u1 es in Sep- I
tembermr in August were the smallest
in any month, and also in many others
failures for the quarterwere the smal-
lest in. any quarter.
The wheat business is more active,
with prices about two cents higher for
spot and nearlycethree cents for the
December option. Very heavy purcha-
ses have been made within the past few
days, not as yet reflected in the official
record of shipments, but the exports
from both coasts, flour included, have
The price of corn has advanced
about two cents though the receipts
are' just now larger than they were a
year ago. ' '
I-The price of spot cotton is a six-
te'enth' lower than a ween ago, and the
January option has also lost a few
points, while thereis a‘w'eaker tone in
the market for goods. This is 'partly
due to the official admission that the
price of print cloths, now a sixteenth
below two cents, cannot be sustained
'without a selling agency, which; is now
propose-I9
While some woolen mills have start--
ed operations during the week quite
as many have stopped. Although wool
is about ten per cent. lower than it
was on February lst, the manufactur-
ers are not buying, and the market is'
remarkably dull, with sales during the
past two weeks of only 6,179,700 pounds,
at the three chief markets, against
24,331,600 last .year, and 14,536,300 in
1896, and 13,703, 800 in 1892. .
The iron manufacture again reports
a small increase in weekly output, 215,-
635 tons against 213, 043 a month ago,
on hand ,outside the
great steel companies,
consumption for the month of Septem-
ber was 983,804. tons, against 980,503 in
August.
In minor metals tin has advanced
but little on account of the marked
speculation in London, which lifted
the price to 17 cents. It is noted that
freights to London are higher than to
New York.
In boots and shoes the output for the
year to date has been 136, 310 cases lax-
ger than ever before, and 245, 289 cases
cent. Yet the demand is much restric-
ted, the dealers holding off in the ex-
pectation of lower prices.
There has been no malked change in
the money maiket, continued ship-
ments of gold preventing any striné
gency.
Failures for the week were 205 in the
United States against 223 last year,
and 25 in the Dominion of Canada
against 36 last year.
OBDAM’S TRIP FROM PORTO moo. I
Sensat i unnl
Lieut, Briana Comradicts
Slaielnents as to the T ansport.
Washington, Oct. 15 —-The war de-
paitment has authmized the publica-.
tion of a letter to Colonel Cl1a1les Bird,
assistant quartermaster general, from'
Lieutenant Briand, quartermaster of
the Fifth United States volunteer in—
fantry, who was on the Obdam, which
has just arrived at New York from
Porto Rico. Referring to sensational
statements "concerning the trip, Lieu-
tenant Briand says:
“The ship was handled well, both by
the captain and crew, and the comfort
of the passengers was looked after in
reg-1rd t0" the sick on board I wish to
say that we had two surgeons, one as—
sistant surgeon and the ship's surgeon.
I know that the sick were looked after
in a proper manner and had all the
comforts there possibly could be had
The convalescents were under the or-
ders of Lieutenant Johnson of the
Nineteenth regulars. I saw him issu-
ing but ginger ale, malted milk and
condensed milk, jams, etc. In fact, 1r.-
looked to their w elfare as well as any
captain would to his own command
and I never heard a single complaint
was unavoidable and for the safety of
the passengers.
Train Robber Confesses.
Kansas City, Mo.0ct.15.-—Lowe, the
self— confessed Missouri Pacific train
robber, has added to his confession the
statement that he also had a 11211111 in
the hold up of the Chicago & Alton pas-
3s tiger and mail train at'BlueCut on the
night of December 23,1896, and. allegeu
that the notorious John-I Kennedy led
the raid.
It is Said that he will again be ar»
rested and will have to stand trial on
of stopping the United
. States mall's.
At the time of Kennedy. 8 acquittal it
was openly charged that the jury had
been approached.
Gold Imports.
New York, Oct. 15. —The steamship
Germanic, whicha :rived from Europe
yesterday, brought these gold consign-
ments:
Lazard Freres, 53,000 pounds; Na-
tional City ank, 19, 500 pounds, Heidel-
berg, ICkelheimer & 00.. 14,500 pounds.
During te last fortnight the local
branch of he Bank of Montreal has
imported $1,000,000 in gold from Mon-
treal.
Lazard Freres announced yesterday
gold.
‘1
v
_ Big Election Bet.
. New York, Oct. 15.—A wager of $10,-
000 was made yesterday at the Iuptown
office of Bell &. Co.,' at the .Hontman
house, on Roosevelt against Van
Wyck. The bet was made at_ .eVen
been possible to make a more satisfac. 1
the apparent ’
that they would import $500, 000 more ,
‘rHE OCCU'PATIOEOF C'U'BA'."~
,'A'spects or Gen. Greene’s Assignment “ 1
the Command of the Divuiou. '
Washington, Oct. 15 .——The order is-
sued yesterday to' General Francis V.
Greene to report to General Lee at
Jacksonville is corroborative evidence
of the intention of the administration
to send General Lee back to Cuba as
the dramatic climax of the war.
When General Greene was called to
Washington by the president last
spring, he was told that it'iwas de-‘
sired to send.him to Manila. He told
the president frankly that he preferred
not to go there, as his great hope was
to see active service in Cuba. Rear
Admiral Dewey, he argued, had done
substantially all the work at Manila
already. '
”You shall have service
was the president’s response.
“But it is a long way to Manila, Mr.
President,” persisted General Greene,
“and by'the timeI get there, perform
the duty required of me, and return,
the siege of Havana may be over.”
“I will see to it that you lose none of
that campaign,” the president again
assured him.
With this understanding, General
Greene accepted the assignment to du-
ty at Manila. It was this fact which
gave the strong tone to predictions
then made that the campaign against
Havana, wnuid not be begun before the
fall.
The president is now carrying out his
promise. General Lee is destined to go
back to Havana under conditions more
imposing than those amid Which he
quitted the city lasr. spring. and Gen-
eral Greene will go with him.
N 0 one expects the duty of either of-
ficer to include a siege of the city, but
General Greene will have his share in
on the, siege there is.
The secretary of the treasury has
written a letter to the secretary of war
recommending that a request of the
Cuban general Sanchez be granted,
that one hundred thousand pounds "of
tobacco captured by the Cuban troops
from the Spaniards as a spoil of war,
be permitted entry free of duty in
Santiago, to be sold there for the bene-
fit of the Cubans concerned in its capt~
ure.
in Cuba,”
This would mean the remission of 1
$100,000 in duties, but the secretary of
the treasury considers that the circum-
stances, including the poverty of the
Cubans, warrant the suspension of du-
ties as a matter of charity.
GEN. GARCIA’S ATTIIUDE.
Denial That fie Has Accepted 3 Post
from Gen. Lawton
Havana, Oct. 15.—The aideI-de-camp
and secretary of General Calixto Gar-
cia, Cosme de la Torriente, is quoted
in an interview as saying that the gen-
eral has not accepted any post from
General Lawton or the other American
officials, that it is not true that he is
making a tour of the eastern part of
Cuba advising the disbanding of the
Cuban army, and that there is no truth
in the statement that Garcia is going
to the United States for the purpose of
endeav oring to raise a loan, which he
has no auhority to do.
The aide further asserted that Garcia
has not denied the legality of the act-
ual reV olutiouary government of Cuba
nor has he accepted the supremacy of
the United States. But, it appears,
Garcia has unofficially expressed the
opinion that the present Cuban govern-
ment, owing to lack of members and
personnel, could not be considered lc-
.gal, as a quorum was impossible, and
Itherefore its actions .are unconstitu-
tional.
General Garcia in all questions of.
- authority at the present moment only
recognizes the general-in-chief of the
:Cuban army, though he recognizes the
I“transitory government of the United
States as a consequence of interven-
;tion,” and being commanded by the
revolutionary government to accept it
and to co-operate with the American
army at Santiago, he obeyed‘ orders.
Further, General Garcia is alleged to
advocate the "closest union between
the Spaniards and Cubans on the is—
land, forgetting the past and uniting;
in every effort looking to the establish-
ment of independence.”
These statements are considered am-
ong the Spaniards here as indicating
Garcia’ s real attitude towards the Uni-
ted States and the future of Cuba.
" A Messenger from Major Marchand.
board an officer belonging to the
French force, under the command of
Major Marchand, now at Fashoda, on
the Nile, has arrived at Khartoum.
This officer is the bearer of the re-
port sent for ,by the French minister
for foreign affairs, M. Delcasse, by
courtesy of the British government,
over the Anglo-Egyptian lines of com-
munication.
The Officer Will probably proceed to
Cairo in order to be able to use the
official cipher of the French consulate
here for transmitting the report to
Paris.
, Quiet in Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica, IQct.15.—The cii-
minal charges against the maroons
have been WithdraWn, thus reducing
the case against them to one of simple
trespass under the civil code.
The presence of troops in the dis-
turbed district has created an excellent
impression and has stopped all riotous
demonstrations.
Perfect tranquility new prevails, b'ut
the,government recognizes the neces—
sity for vigilance until 'the present
. disturbed conditions have changed for
the better.
'l‘o Sail Undo: OnrfFlag.
Tacoma, Oct. 15.-«It is stated on good
authority that the Northern Pacific
steamship Company is arranging to
put under the American flag six British
steamers, which it is operating to Chi—
ha and Japan from this city.
These steamers include the transmit
Arizona, the Tacoma. Olympia, Colum—
bia and Argyle.
It is believed that the Arizona will
be transferred back to the Northern
Pacific at Hong Kong when the gov-
ernment no longer needs her ser-
vices. ‘ ‘ a
. _...._a———-—
New Diamond Mines.
Pgth, Western Australia, Oct. 15..
It is- reported that a wild rush is be-
ing made .to the new diamond mines
discovered- at Nullagme, in the north-
west part of western Isustralia. 1,
money.
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' Cairo, Oct. 15.—A steamer having on -
In the Drying I“ .111 m ',-y
“The preparation of (111313 veged'al.:2.1
for the market," 2:111:12 wholesale
dealer in such goods in New Turk u
the writer recently, “has lately Ln:-
come quite an extensive industry 111
various agricultural parts of this
country. Five years ago there were
not a dozen factories in New I011:
state where any vegetable, other tbs:
a potato, was diicd for the table.
To-day there are at least twenty fac-
n'r? .
ulu (l
Itories in this state, and as many more
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where
fresh vegetables such as potatoes.
carrots and onions, are dried especial-
ly for Winter use.
‘The fresh vegetables are brought
by. truck loads to the drying factory
during the summer and fall seasons
They are unpacked, and the good hav-
ing been sorted out from the bad, the
vegetables are taken to the washing;
room, where they are cleaned of all
particles of dust and dirt that may
adhere to them. They are then senl
-to the peeling room. Here a. numbc1
of men, women and children are bus-i
1y employed with keen-edged knives
peeling the vegetables into large bas-
kets. As soon as a basket has been
filled the peeled vegetable, be it po-ta
to, carrot or onion, is dumped into a
hopper made to hold one of those three
special vegetables. From there they
are fed to a machine With rotating
knife blades which cuts them up into
small slices about a quarter of an inch
thick,
“After being sliced the tubers' are
slightly sulphured in a chamber buill
of wood. Here great discrimination
must be used, for if they are sulphur
ed too much the potatoes will taste of
the fumes; if too little, they will not
contain enough antiseptic property and
bacteria attracted by the starch will
develop. The sulphuring process is
necessary to preserve the color of the
vegetables as far as possible, and to
prevent decay.
“After this process the potatoes are,
not spread out in the sun, but put in
to an evaporator. The later looks like
a small Ferris Wheel and is inclosed in
a sort of brick oven with glass wln~
(lows. Within this it revolves close to
:hIot-a'lr' pipes for-a. few hours. When
the moisture is sufficiently evaporated
the cars of the wheel are emptied
through the windows, and their con
tents are ready to be nicked in boxes
for the market. When the sliced DO
tatoes are taken from the evaporarm
they resemble dry chips, and it takes
six or seven pounds of the fresh vege
table to make one pound of the dried
article. Other vegetables than those
mentioned are at present in process of
development. Thus far the industry
has proved very profitable, as evinced
by the increased demand for dried
vegetables all over the country dining
last winter. ”
“THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP."
Its Publisher Ban a. Chance of Ruining
His Business. ‘
The particular incident connected.
with the .first year of The Overland
that has been oftenest and most wide-
ly told is the first reception of “The
Luck of Roaring Camp” and the trou-
ble it made. My own recollection of
the incident differs a little in particu-
lars from Mr. Hart'e’s. As I remem-
ber it, Mr. Harte and I had both gone
with our wives to Santa Cruz for
Sunday. We often took such trips in
those days. On this Sunday I found in
my mail, when the stage from San
Jose came in, duplicate proofs of “The
Luck of" Roaring Camp.” Harte had
told me the story before. One proof
I gave to him and took the other to
my own room, where I asked my Wife
to read it aloud to me. As far as she
could go she did, but the stery so af-
fected her that she could not finish- it
aloud, and went on reading. itto her-
self. Then I took it and finished it,
too. Neither of us had a wordbf ob-
jection to make, we were simply de-
lighted with it. -
On the following day we all went
back to San Francisco. on reaching
the city Harte went to the printer’s
and I to the store.
My .chief clerk, Joseph Hoffmann,
greeted me with the statement that
there was a ggeat hullabaloo at the
printer’s over the immorality of the
Luck. They were saying that it
would kill the magazine.
To this I replied that if it killed the
magazine it could do nothing more.
Then Mr. Harte came in from the
printer’s with the sharp demand to
know what I meant to do, about it.
“Nothing,” I said, “but go ahead.”—
Anton Roman in The Overland;
. Jo'wxmg vIV no the Queen, ,
There is said to be only one man
who::lias- 'IevI'e'r- dared to make a joke
1:“ the.;-D'1‘esence of the Queen... This
Canon Telgnmouth-Shdre,3 at one
time governor to the children of the
Prince of. 'WIa-l'es, and a splendid type
of Irish humorist. He was discussing
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Large Increase In DI maud and Ills Work ,
with Her. Majesty the question why
it was that Shoemakers were supposed
to be so'IaI- advanced in their [heterodoxy
{ant of faith in futurity.
. - .'..~ quietly remarked the
audacious Canon “one could hardly
expect a shoemaker to believe in the
immortality of the sole (soul)? Her
Majesty enjoyed the joke and laughed
very heartily over it.—-New York
Herald. '
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