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233112335 % A / V . a JSl \v r s»si I TO PREVENT SWEAT ON WHEAT. |I ■nyon notice County, an inquiry Idaho, ftom asking J. B. for G., Iraedy a for the sweat on wheat, oats Id lieat barley. California is a great and barley State, and wheat has len grown successfully on the same ■id lor over forty years without any ■tilizers. Wo have used the blue- Rue (sulphate of copper) remedy to ■ 1 smut for the last fifteen years,and ■never Id fails, to wit: Take a barrel set it in the ground, the same as lough like you were going to scald hogs, a platform so that the water will ■in back into the barrel; put three Bunds of bluestone in the barrel and R the barrel half full of water ; stir Rh a hoe occasionally for a day or R the bluestone will dissolve. Tho Restone water can be made a Ik or a month beforo using, ns it Ri’t hurt or lose strength by stand- K. The day before you expect to Hr grain put a sack of grain (sack ■1 all) in the barrel, and leave it Ire for two, three or four hours. Bn lift it out onto the platform to Kin, Hthe and put another sack of grain barrel to soak. It would be Ht to begin to sack grain a day or R> before beginning to sow, as it Ruld be better drained. While sow- H keep soaking grain and draining ■head, so as to have it well drained, ■you sow much grain, then keep re- luestone lenishing your barrel with water and at the proportion of six bunds of bluestone to the barrel of !al., ater.—Horace F. Wilcox, Julian, in New York Tribune, H COVERING CLOVEE SEED. ■ One of the principal causes of failure Bn securing a good catch of clover is ■he lack of sufficient moisture im¬ mediately Rs after seeding. When seed sown on winter wheat, it sometimes Rails to germinate because a crust ■forms on top of the ground, especially tf the season is dry and the seeds do Riot become sufficiently imbedded. ■This may be remedied to a great ex¬ tent by harrowing the ground lightly immediately after the clover has been sown, to give the seeds a light cover¬ ing. If clover is sown with spring grain, it becomes almost a necessity to give the seeds a covering deep enough to secure moisture, but not too deep so as to exclude light. One-half to one inch i3 about right, especially if the soil is light and sandy. Clover seed covered to a depth oi three inches in the light sandy toils of the AVestern States has grown and m a de a good stand, and produced a more vigorous growth than that covered only ono-hali an inch deep. But deep covering would under no eircumstanees be advisable where there is plenty of moisture, as in the Eastern States, and dry seasons are rare exceptions. However,a light covering will be advisable under most conditions. Last spring I seeded a couple of small pieces to red and alsike clovers and gave the seed a covering by using a light drag.' Although tho season was an unusually wet one I succeeded in obtaining a very good stand. So even a large amount of moisture will not destroy the clover seed, if it has not been covered too deep.—L. O. Follow, of Minnesota, in American Agriculturist. ETTI.ES FOE BUTTEE MAKING. The instructor of Cornell Agricul¬ tural College, Ithaca, N. Y, has sent out a list of rules about butter making and ripening cream. He says: The practical part of cream ripening is this: Keep your vessel so that it may all ripen evenly and thus avoid loss in churning. Raise the temperature to 62 or 78 degrees and keep it as near that temperatnro aspossible nntil ripe, and then cool before churniDg. Well ripened cream should be coagulated or thickened. It should run from aheight in a smooth stream like oil. When a paddle is dipped into it aDd held in the hand, it should stick all over in a thick even coat, not running off in streaks and showing the surface of the paddle. When the last drops run off the paddle bade into the vat tboy should leave little dents or depressions on the surface which do not olose up for an instant. Tho cream should have a satin gloss or fresh surface. Cliurn until the granules are the size of wheat kernels; then draw off the buttermilk and wash through two or three waters, whirling the churn a few times around. Use from a pint to a quart of water por pound of butter. Hove the water at a temperature of 40 to 45 degrees in hot weather and fr< m 50 to 62 degrees in winter, always de lending upon season, natural solidity of the butter, warmth of room and size of granules. If you do not care about feeding the washings, I would put some salt in my first wash water. It will help to float the granules bet¬ ter, and perhaps dissolve out the casein to some extent. I would gen¬ erally salt the butter in the churn. F A EM MANURES. A recent bulletin of tho Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station deals •with soil fertility,and the production, preservation and use of farm manures. It is estimated that the manure pro¬ duced each year by the farm animals of the United States is worth the enormous sum of $2,000,000,000. On the same basis, the valne of the ma ■ nure excreted by the farm animals in Missouri each year would amount to $150,000,000. This estimate for Mis¬ souri is probably too high, since a relatively smaller quantity of foods producing rich manure, such as cotton seed moal, linseed meal, wheat bran, etc., are fed in Missouri than in most of the Eastern and Northern States. The value of this product of the farm is large enough, however, to warrant our most serious attention and to jus¬ tify the employment of such measures as are necessary to preserve without waste and apply in the best manner all the manures prodneod. Fully one-half of the manure pro¬ duced in Missouri is wasted, which, according to the foregoing estimate, means a loss to the farmers of this State from this source alone of $75,- 000 , 0000 . The manure from yonng, growing animals is less valuable than from ma¬ ture ones, tho food being the same. Full grown animals not gaining in weight throw off in tho dung and urine practically all the fertilizing constituents taken into the body. In milch cows and growing animals from one-half to three-fourths of the fertil¬ izing constituents of tho food passes into the manure. In fattening or working animals it is from ninety to ninety-five per cent. The value of the manure is more dependent upon the kind of food con¬ sumed than upon the age of the an¬ imal; for example, animals fed on cotton seed meal, linseed meal, wheat bran, clover hay or blue grass, will produce a manure very much richer than when feed on corn, oats or timo¬ thy hay. The passing of the food through the animal adds nothing to its fertilizing value except to render its ingredients somewhat more readily available to the plants. Sources of loss are faulty methods of feeding; improper arrangement of pastures and feed lots; from allowing the manure to stand in piles in the barn yard or in the field, where it fer¬ ments too rapidly; the waste of the liquid manure. As a rule the manure Bhould be hauled direct from the barn to the field and spread. Nothing iR added to manure by allowing it to rot in piles, and much is likely to be lost by this process. BREEDING DAIRY COWS. 1. Select the best cows in your herd, or that you can buy, to keep, and dis¬ pose of the others. 2. The best cow for the dairy is the one that produces the greatest amount of butter fat in a year (for food con¬ sumed) when being rightly fed. 3. Test your cows by weighing; the milk of each cow for a year, and test¬ ing it occasionally with the Babcock milk tester, and know how much but¬ ter fat each one does produce. 4. To renew or increase your herd raise the heifer calves from your best cows. 5. Use the best dairy-bred sire you can get; one if possible that has a long line of ancestors, and have been first- class dairy animals. 6. In this way you can make each generation better than tlie preceding one, if they have at all times proper care and feed. 7. It is neither profitable nor neces¬ sary for a cow to go dry more than four to six weeks. 8. Especially should your young cows be watched and not allowed to aequiro the habit of drying up too soon. 9. "Darken the stable in which tho cows are milked through fly time. It will not only economize the patience of the milker, but the cost of milk production as well. 10. Keep a record of the time when cows are bred, and have no guesswork about the time of calving. 11. Provide a roomy box stall, and allow the cow to become accustomed to it a week prior to calving. 12. Rich foods should be withheld for a short time prior and subsequent to calving. 13. The udder should receive prompt attention. An obstacle may be re¬ moved from the teat the first hour that might battle science later. 14. A pail of scalded bran should be given to the cow as soon as possible after calving. 15. The calf should bo permitted to nurse its mother for two or three days. 16. After separating tho ealf from its mother, feed tho natural milk as soon as drawn, for a week or ten days. 17. Then begin gradually to substi¬ tute skim milk with oil meal jelly stirred into it. 18. Scald the calf’s feed pail daily. 19. Feed three times a day and not more than three quarts at a time until the calf is well started. 20. Warm tho milk by 2 ilaciDg the vessel that contains the milk in hot water. 21. Warm the milk to ninety de¬ grees F. 22. Don’t trust your finger, but a thermometer. It will save many a calf's life. 23. The mau whose ideal of a cow is high, coupled with good eare, feed and gentleness, is sure to receive the high¬ est profit in milk And pleasure that can be made in dairying. We will add a couple of other points: 24. Alwuys clean out the box stall after a cow has calved therein, and thoroughly disinteet it with a solution made of one part of;sulphuric acid to nine of water. This is to prevent sep¬ tic poisoning of the next cow, which may easily occur. 25. Do not milk the udder out clean until the fourth day after calving. This will often prevent a chill, which often produces milk fever. Germany exports 750,000 canaries every year to ul! parts of the world. GREEK AND TURK. WHY TIIK FORMER BITTERLY HATES THE LATTER. Awful Devastation of tho Grecian Island of Sclo by the Turks— How the Greeks Avenged Their Comrades. T HERE are passages in modern Greek history whioh explain the unquenchable hatred of the Greek for the Moslem. Some injuries may be forgiven, others leave behind them a running sore which never heals. Suoh a wrong is the massacre of Soio. Over against the seaboard of Asia Minor, within seven miles of tho beach on whioh the surf breaks and in full sight of the old Pagus range, with the town of Smyrna nestling at its base, the Island of Soio or Chios wooes the Western breeze with her oils and wines. Like most of the Aegean is¬ lands it was born of fire and sulphur and lava, but after a time generous nature swathed the rugged rooks of the southern extremity with a cover¬ ing of alluvium, on whioh the citron blooms and the lentisk lends its frag¬ rant bark to the knife, so that the gum mastio whioh the girls of the Orient love shall flow. From the remotest antiquity a race of islanders were grown to fit so sweet a landscape. The men were tall, sin¬ ewy, brave, trained to handle their small craft in the stormy seas when the hurricane blows; th6y led quiet lives, at peace with all the world, and kept out of wars when war was every¬ where else. Nowhere, even in Lesbos, •were suoh beautiful girls raised. They were taller than the Greeks generally, with exquisitely rounded forms, flash¬ ing black eyes and rippling hair, which hung loose over their shoulders. For a thousand years Scio was the happiest of the gems of the Eastern sea. Its chief city, basking on the eastern beach, with its face to tho ris¬ ing sun, was rich and quiet when the gutters of the other oities of that re¬ gion flowed periodically with blood. When the time came that the Turk swooped down upon it, the people ac¬ quiesced, lot the Moslem set up his mosques and went on chanting “Ave Maria” as devoutly as ever. Chance favored it. It was made the demesne of the Sultana dowager, and a wild rage for chewing gum having broken out in tlie seraglio at Constantinople it was discovered that the precious ar¬ ticle could bo best manufacturedjfrom the gum mastic of Chios. Thus the owners of lentisk groves grew rich. In the times of the later crusades the Genoese wrested Chios out of the hands of the Turks,held it for a couple of centuries, and left their marks all over the island in the shape of con¬ vents, churches, colleges, hospitals, libraries and palaces. Then the Turks- reconquered it. But the softness of the air mitigated the ferocity of the temper of the Moslem; the cres¬ cent floated over the castle of Soio ; but the Christians cultivated their fields without molestation, and at the beginning of this century they num¬ bered 90,000 of the hundred and odd thousand of inhabitants. When the Greek war of independence broke out, the Ghians did not at first see that they were called upon to take part. They read the papers in their quiet, | easy-going way and kept their passions well under control. But when news came that Greek blood was flowing on the mainland they rose in arms and ! locked up the Governor in the castle j without doing him any harm. He : dispatched a swift messenger to Con- , stautinople to say that he had fallen into the hands of the Philistines and that he was prepared to endure what¬ ever Allah might send. The missive reached the hand of Kara Ali, the capondan pasha, or lord high admiral, who was just then start¬ ing from the Golden Horn with his fleet to chastise the Greek rebels. It occurred to the capondan pasha that it might be a good idea to drop in at Scio on the way. He brought his fleet to an anchor in the roads and landed 15,001) troops, chiefly janissar¬ ies. These were joined by robbers and adventurers from Smyrna, who were ferried across the narrow strait. The islanders were taken by sur¬ prise. They had no military organ¬ ization and were unprepared to fight. They offered submission at once and protested that they did not propose to dispute the Sultan’s authority. The capondon pasha pointed to the castle where the Governor had been imprisoned and quickly observed that he proposed to give Soio a lesson. He let loose his soldiers, bidding them treat the island like a captured city which had been given up to sack. The Turks went about tho work de¬ liberately. They took two months to accomplish it. They began by hang¬ ing the archbishop, the heads of the clergy and the principal oitizens; their bodies were thrown into the sea and floated round tho Turkish ships until they were eaten by fish. The capital city, a score or more of flourishing villages and tho splendid churches and convents built by the Genoese were then burned to the ground. The peo¬ ple were penned up in corrals, tho males being separated from the fe¬ males. The former were killed to a man ; the latter after a judicious se¬ lection had been made by the Turkish army and navy officers, were sent to Constantinople to be disposed of in the slave market. ^Gordon Jsays that the men who were slaughtered num¬ bered 25,000 and that 45,000 girls and children were sold as slaves. Certain it is that the price of comely young women declined fifty per cent, in tho slave markets of the Levant during the year 1822, which was the year of the massacre. Several thousand Chians, men and women, took refuge in the clefts of the hills, and eluded pursuit. Of these many starved to death; others were taken off at night in boats by sympa¬ thizers from other islands. Quite a number were bought or ransomed by citizens of Smyrna. Of those who ex¬ patriated themselves, the bulk wan¬ dered through the Mediterranean cities jn a state of destitution, and lor many years Chian beggars invested the streets of Genoa, Marseilles and Bar¬ celona. Among them were women whose countenances showed remains of hunger, marvelous beauty, destroyed by oold and privation. Gordon says that thero was a time at the olose* of 1822 when of the 90,000 Christian inhabitants of Soio in 1821, only 2000 remained. This appears to be an exaggeration, but there is no question but so far a3 in them lay the work of depopulation which the Turks understood was thoroughly done. At the appalling news, the blood of Greece boiled. Even tho tepid fluid which jog-trotted through the veins of European statesmen was slightly stirred. Remonstrances couched in decorous diplomatic phrases were ad¬ dressed to Constantinople. Mean¬ while a seoret council of Greek leaders resolved to strike back. The Turkish fleet lay at its anchorage in the roads of Scio, the officers toastmgtheir dark¬ eyed captives in goblets of Chian wine, and trying to divert their griefs with song and dance. Under oover of a moonless night there crept out. of the northern darkness two small Greek brigs, outfitted as fireships, filled with gunpowder, pitch, tow, tar and Greek fire, and manned by Constantine Ca- naris of Psara and thirty-three Bailors who were ready to give away their lives. They had taken the sacrament, and had been blessed by the priest. Canaris had seen to it that a barrel of powder stood handy to blow up the craft with all on board, in case he failed. When the black night fell, he sailed in noiselessly, steering by the lights of the Turkish vessels, and aimed straight at the bow of the Turkish flagship. When he struck tie chains, he grappled them and made fast, driving his brig under the counter of the flags!ip as far as he could; then he set fire to his craft, and sheered off rapidly in a rowboat shouting “Victory to the Cross!” The fire crept swiftly up the tarred sides of the man-of-war, leaped the bulwarks, lioked up the rigging, ran along the deck and probed its way down the hatches. In a tew minutes it enveloped the magazine. There were over 2000 men on board, sailors and Boldiers. They were demoralized by the looting in which they had en¬ gaged. Discipline had been relaxed; the officers found it impossible to fight the fire with vigor and method. Presently tho flames gnawed tho with base of one of the masts, and it fell a crash. Foreseeing what must come next, the Capondan Pasha, whose arms and hands had been burned in a vain attempt to check the conflagration, leaped overboard into his gig and or¬ dered the sailors to row to the shore. But just as they were shoving off an¬ other mast toppled and fell athwart the Admiral’s boat, striking’ him a blow on the head which broke his skull. He lived to be landed on the beach of the island he had devastated; then he died, just as the chant of the Ramadan rose in the night air, and the explosion of the magazine on board his vessel Eent 2000 of his countrymen to eternity. Six months afterward the Greek A eet | a y o1 ^ ^e island of Tenedos awaiting an attack, which much prove fatal, for the lurkish fleet, over¬ whelming in numbers, encircled _ it on everv^ side. Again it was a dark, moonless night, and the watch on the lurkish ships slumbered in security, Through the glcom, over the dark wave3, as eight bells sounded, the same Constantine Canaris sailed silent¬ ly, every man in his little craft hold¬ ing his ureath and awaiting the grat¬ ing sound of the scraping of the Greek sloop against the sides of the Turkish flag ship. It did not take long, when the jar came, for Canaris and his brave men to fasten their grapnels to the Turk and set fire to the combustibles, with which their deck was loaded. As the flames darted up the side, Canaris pushed off in the dark and shouted: “Turks you are burned as at Soio! God save the cross!”—San Francisco Chronicle. How He Lost a Friend. “I had a friend once who had a horror of lending money,” said a well- known sporting man last night. “He knew me, and knew me to be perfectly good for any debt I might contract. He and 1 were in Chicago once, and I got broke, cold broke. I needed $100 badly and had no one to turn to ex¬ cept this friend. I went to him and told him that 1 knew his prejudice against loaning money, but said I need¬ ed a hundred so badly that I was will¬ ing to take the ohanee. ‘I know you to be good for a $100,’ said my friend, ‘but I warn you right now that if you borrow that amount or a hundred cents from me I will never speak to you again as long as I live.’ ‘To per¬ dition with your friendship,’ said I; ‘what I want is a hundred.’ He pulled out his wad and gave me five twenty- dollar bills. The next day I tried to talk to him and he would have nothing to do with me. After several other rebuffs I stopped trying to force my compatiy on him. I paid the money back when I said I would, but even alter the debt was canceled he would have nothing to do with me. That was ten years ago. I have seen him every day or so in all that time, and he has never made the slightest re¬ sponse to my overtures. I don’t be¬ lieve his own father could borrow $2 from him and expect to retain his friendship. He ib certainly a iunny man.”—New Orleans Time3-Democrat. Nevada for many years has had but one Baptist Church. This is at Reno, and now a second has been established at Wadsworth, thirty-five miles dis- tant, with a membership of sixteen and four awaiting baptism. PRECIPITATE!) IN SENATE BY A MOTION BY MORRILL. DEMOCRATS SHOW A SOLID FRONT. Gorman Criticize* Speaker For Not Ap¬ pointing: Committee*—Special Message From President. An unexpected tariff vote was pre¬ cipitated in the senate Wednesday by Senator Morrill’s motion to refer to the finance committee the Vest resolu¬ tion declaring the order of Secretary Gage as to the protective clause of the tariff illegal. A yea and nay vote was taken, and Mr. Morrill’s motion to re¬ fer prevailed—yeas, 24; nays, 23. The only republican vote cast against the motion was that of Mr. Chandler, while the democrats voted solidly against it. They had the as¬ sistance of all the silver republicans and the populists present except Mr. Mantle (silver republican), of Mon¬ tana, who voted with the straight re¬ publicans. Mr. Cannon (silver repub¬ lican) (Tennessee), and Messrs. Butler, Harris Heitfelt, Pettigrew and Turner (populists), were recorded against the motion. Messrs. Teller, Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, were absent. Senator Morgan asked to have a time set for a final vote on the Cuban reso¬ lution. Mr. Hoar objected, and Mr. Morgan gave notice that he would call up the resolution daily until a vote was secured. A Special Message. The presideut sent a special message to congress urging it to make suitable provision for adequate representation) of the United States at the Pans ex¬ position. The closing paragraph of the message was as follows: “It is proper that I should emphasize the need of early action, for if the present session pass without suitable provision being made postponment of the matter for nearly a year longer could not but operate greatly to the disadvantage of tho United States in view of the elaborate preparations already making by other governments and of the danger that further delay may result in inadequate allotment of space to this country, as well as incomplete organization of the American exhibit. First Congressional Action. The first step toward the acceptance of the invitation from France to par¬ ticipate in the Paris exposition of 1900 has been taken by congress in the fol¬ lowing action: Senator Mason, of Illinois, offered in the senate a joint resolution accept¬ ing the invitation and pioviding for the appointment of a commissioner general, assistant commissioner gener¬ al and nine scientific experts to repre¬ sent the United States. The sum of $750,000 is appropriated to meet the expenses of the exhibit. The resolution directs the president of the United States officially to notify the governors of states of the desire of the government to be represented at this exposition and to representation request them to take proper steps for of all the states and territories in the United States at the exhibit. No Funds Available. Attorney General McKenna sent a letter to the house Wednesday calling attention to the fact that there is now- no fund available for the payment of the United States district attorneys. He recommends that $25,000 be imme¬ diately appropriated for salaries and expenses of district attorneys and $55,000 for the pay of regular assistant attorneys. SPINNERS STRIKE IN ONTARIO. They Quit Work Because of a Reduction In Wages. The Canadian Cotton company, of Cornwall, Ont., started work Wednes¬ day after a week of idleness. A few minutes after work was begun the foreman announced to the spinners that there would be a further cut in their wages. The workmen, 30 or 40 in number, refused to accept the re¬ duction and left the building. In consequence of the action of the strikers the mill management closed the mill down for an indefinite period, thus throwing between 700 and 800 hands ont of employment. OBJECT TO COLORED CADET. Congrrcssman Shattuc Urged to With- draw Bundy's Name. Congressman Shattuc, of Ohio, nominated D. J. Bundy, a colored lad of Cincinnati, to a cadetship at An¬ napolis. urged withdraw the He has been to name, but says he will stand by the appointment. of There have been some murmurs disapproval from the Naval academy and threats of the students to resign. Mr. Shattuc says that the boy earned his appointment fairly and he is going to see that he goes to Annap¬ olis and receives fair treatment if it is in his power to do so. HAY SAILS FOR ENGLAND. New Ambassador Embarks on Steamship St. Paul. Col. John Hay, United States am¬ bassador to the court of St. Janies, sailed for England Wednesday on the American line steamship St. Paul. He was accompanied by his wife and eld¬ est daughter. Belmont Ex-Representative Perry was also among the passengers, He is going abroad for a stay of several months. FAMILY OF SEYEN BROWNED. Negroes Attempt to Kctenpe Flood; Bull Kirk* Boat to PltoM. A distressing accident oocurred ten miles west of Helena, Ark.,.Wednes¬ day, in the drowning of a family of seven negroes. Sylvester Sanders, a tenant on the Joel Higgins farm, where the current has been so swift as to threaten the destruction of the houses, left with his wife and five children for higher ground. Unfortunately he took into his boat a large bull, which he valued highly. When within a mile of the hills the bull, which was almost fam¬ ished, attempted to eat the small limbs of the willow trees through which the boat was being laboriously pushed. The animal’s action tipped the boat and frightened the inmates, who made frantic efforts to right it. In the ex¬ citement the animal kicked the side of the boat to pieces and the entire fam¬ ily was drowned. Some negroes saw them, but were unable to render assistance. BIG BATTLE EXPECTED. Cuban Insu rjsjents Band Heavy Cargo of Arms at Banes. A special from Havana says: Banes, an important port on the north coast, near Gibari, from whioh go heavy an¬ nual exportations of bananas and co- coanuts to the United States, narrowly escaped total destruction. The expedition under General Roloff on the steamer Laurada, carrying 240 rifles, 5,000 cartridges and several pieces of rapid firing artillery, landed along the quay of Banes. General Calixto Garcia, with 5,000 men, came to protect the convoy of arms and am¬ munition, but as Roloff had no men to arm Garcia was compelled to carry the arms into the interior. Evidently an important battle is in sight, if the insurgents try to defend their advantageous stronghold and their claim to being able to hold a sea¬ port. Great anxiety exists with reference to the garrison of 100 men in the front defending the quay at Banes. It is believed they will be compelled to surrender for lack of water and supplies. The cruiser Pingon has twice been compelled to break chains in order to enter the Banes port. KILLED ANI) CREMATED. Maniac Murder. Family and Burns the House. A horrible tragedy was enacted at Oakland, a small farming village a few miles from Pascoog, R. I. About 3 o’clock Wedesday morning tlie house occupied by Edward Reynolds and family was burned and Reynolds, his wife and adopted daughter were killed and cremated in the burning building. The deed was committed by Martin Mowry, who worked for Reynolds. Mowrv was willing to talk after his arrest, but from his appearance and manner of expression it seemed clear that he was insane. During the consideration of the In¬ dian appropriation bill, whioh was taken up in the afternoon, Senator Gorman criticised the manner of pass¬ ing appropriation bills without prop¬ erly organized committees. He declared that it was in opposi-# tion to the caution of President Mc¬ Kinley in his inaugural address that strict economy should be observed. ANGELL MINISTER TO TURKEY. President Sends a Number of Appoint¬ ments to the Senate for Action. The president Wednesday sent the following nominations to the senate: State—James B. Angell, of Michi¬ gan, to be envoy extraordinary United and minister plenipotentiary of the States to Turkey; George N. West, of the District of Columbia, consul of the United States to Pictou, Nova Scotia. War—George D. Meildejohn, of Ne¬ braska, to be assistant secretary of war. To be commissioner of the District of Columbia—John B. Wright and John W. Ross. Treasurer—John W. Cunningham,of Idaho, assayer of the United States, at the assay office at Boise City, Idaho. Justice—Jasper P. Brady, of Indian Territory, marshal of the central dis¬ trict in the Indian Territory. Navy—Seligman Bros., special fiscal agents of the navy department, at Lon¬ don, England. Thirty-Four Miners Killed. Advices from Johannesburg, South Africa, state that a terrible dynamite explosion has taken place in a deep mine at Langlarte. Eight English and twenty-six native miners were killed. SPALDING MAKES A CONFESSION. Admits That He Hypothecated the Uni¬ versity Bonds. President McKay, of the University of Illinois makes the statement that C. W. Spalding, treasurer cf the board and president of the defunct savings bank, admitted to him and to Trustee James W. Armstrong that he had hy¬ pothecated the university endowment bonds entrusted him as treasurer. This admission of guilt, Mr. McKay said, was made Monday. Spalding entered into no explanation, but promised a full statement later. This is the first time any one in authority has openly stated that the bonds had been hypothecated. After the Dean Company. The governing committee of the New York stock exchange preferred charges against Ceukirich, the board member of the firm of Theo W. Myers & Co., which it is alleged acted for the E. S. Dean company on the exchange. # Two Big Iron Companies Fail. The Longinead Iron company and Conschocken, Pa., have gone into the bands of receivers. The liabilities will amount to $300,000. The assets will not be above $150,000.