Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 July 1899 — Page 2
Republican Progress. BLOOM IN GTON, IND. DKXNIS B. HAVINGS, - Proprietor.
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OS. it 1i f. Q.P. M (i K EVENTS OF INTEREST
That occurred during the past week.
Tersely Told Telegraph Tale in Brief Paragraphs Many Casualties A Few Crimes-Some Fires Palir leal and Belie' it New.
Executioners Tinder Arrest.
Independence l Kan.) special: All the
Choctaw authorities who part "Minted in the
execution of Willa. Touaka st week have
been arrestta for refusing to obey the order o( Jndge Thomas of the Federal Court, who
ordered a stay of execution, l hey are charged with murder, and there is at present a crash between the Federal authorities and the Indian courts which may cause serious trouble. For years the Choctews have shot members of their tribe, even for stealing, when convicted the third time. Bet the Curtis law deprived the Indian courts of their jurisdiction, lieneo this clash of authorities.
Admiral Dewey at Trieste. The United States cruiser Olynipia, with Admiral Dewey on board, has arrived at Trieste, Austria. Tlie principal paper, 11 Picolo, has a flattering article welcoming the Admiral to Austria. Admiral Dewey's secretary said to the American Press correspondent that the passage of the Olynipia from Port Said was a pleasant one. The olynipia will remain about two weeks. Admiral Dewey's health is perfect. He has not decided whether he will go to Carlsbad, as has been announced, but it is probable that he will do so. The Admiral intends to visit Vienna.
American! Victorious. Manila special: News has been received here from Gen. Smith at Jioilo. Island of Panf.y, of a severe tight at Bobong. between "Capt. Byrne of the Sixteenth Infantry.with seventy men and a force of 450 Babaylones, who surprised the American troops. One hundred and fifteen of the enemy were killed, as is shown by actual count, many were wounded and one taken prisoner. The American loss was one man killed and one man wounded. The fighting was mostly at close quarters, with bayonets and clubbed guns?
Firemen Injnred. Fire destroyed the Grace Hotel, a fourstory brick structure at the corner of Park and Beed streets, Milwaukee, Wis. About twenty-five firemen were injured, of whom five may die. It was the most serious fire of the kind since the Davidson Theater was destroyed, at which time a dozen firemen lost their lives. Most of the injured were taken to the Emergency Hospital. Tha pecuniary loss will be small
The Kentucky Fend Growing.
The Clay County, Kentucky, fend is
growing to gigantic proportions. The
man vtiiwi umflgm ana aacrat muruiiiy wounded. Is believed to be the beginning of a series of battles. Armed Philpots have gathered from all sections 100 strong. The opposing elans of Morris Griffin and the Chad well families are said to be only two
miles away, tiny strong. Terrible Engines of Death.
The Navy Department has received the first half of an order for 100 new machine
trans of a new type, tbe most powerful in
tne possession or any government. Thev
are one-pounders, carrying an explosive
saeu, ana can tire .so shots a minute. They are cooled by a water jacket, end it is said they can pat fifty shots into the head of a
Barrel at can a mile in a qoarr of a min-
Ten Drowned.
Word has reached Tekamah, Neb., of the drowning in Northwestern Iowa of A. W. Blades, his wife and eight children, while
en route to Minnesota in an emigrant wagon. The family was encamped for the night on a creek when a cloudburst raised the creek twelve or fifteen feet and the
family, team and wagon were swept away. Kaln Fall Heavy at Manila. Gen. Otis cables that the storm is still prevailing at Manila, bat that better weather is indicated. The rainfall has been extremely heavy, and the country to flooded. The troops on the outposts have suffered, and some lines of communication are eat. There is no material increase in sickness reported. New bon Boycott New York Papers. The newsboys are boyeotting the New York World and Journal because they can not get thetn two for a cent. Tbe other morning they attacked a man selling Worlds and scattered bis papers in the street. A Town Destroyed by Fire. --Berlin special: The town of Dobejhi, in the government of Voibynia. Russia, has been destroyed by fire. Seven persons lost their lives and the surviving inhabitants have been rendered destitute.
National Christian Party. A call has been issued by W. I Benkert of Davenport, Iowa, for a national convention of the United Christian party, to be held at Chicago December 24, 1899, and to remain in session a week. On January 1, 1900, it is proposed to nominate a national ticket, for which all "Cod fearing mem and women" can vote.
Bis; Fire at Quebec. Fire destroyed eighty houses in the Strochs suburb of Quebec. The loss is J15O,0O0. Children playing with matches was the cause.
EASTERN.
At Waverly, N. Y., Daniel Casterline and Verne Dildino were drowned in the Chemoog river by thi capsizing of a boat. Annie and Mary Kinney, aged 17 and 12 years respectively, and their cousin Ella, aged 15, were drowned while bathing in the Housatonie river at Lower Derby, Conn. A scheme to establish a negro colony at Oak Grove, near Flemingtcn, N. J., is assuming form. Maps have lieeu prepared on a large scale by competent engineers providing for every need of a thoroughly up-to-date town. Frank Ainmond ami Charles D. Van Dretmen, aged 35 and 4(1 yea in, were drowned in Pleasant lake, N. . Edward White, who was with the men, swum shore. Their boat capsized. The men resided st Copenhagen. A new development is reported in the famous New York poisoning case. Walter S. Swayue, a chemist of New Haven, has made an affidavit that he prepared a poisonous compound for "II. Cornish" in March and October of 1867. ' A large proportion of the 7,000 men employed on the lines of the Brooklyn. N. Y., Rapid Transit Company have gone oat on strike, Scenes of lawlessness and riot attended the opening of the strike,
and several persona were injured by thrown missiles. Fire at the Brooklyn navy yard threatened much valuable property iu "he building occupied by the provision and clothing department of the bureau o:.' supplies and accounts. The lire was discovered on the third floor, in which white dnek cloth was kept and cut up for the men iu the navy. Drexel & Co., bankers, have purchased the plant of the Jessup & Moure Paper Comnnuv of Philadelnhin. tlie Drexel
company holding the entire eupival of $2,
000,000. The Diesels will hold the stock, but the operation of the plant will cou-
tinue in practically the same bands as lit
present.
George M. Valentine, cashier of the
suspended Middlesex Couuty Bank nt
Perth Amlsvy, N. J., has been sentenced
in Middlesex County Court to six years
in the pemtentiaryat Trenton, v iilentine
pleaded not guilty to the charge of lar
ceny in connection with his nusuppropria
Hon of about $130,000 from th bank, esternT
The town of Wagner, I. T., was almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000.
William Goings was shot at; Alikchi
I. T., under sentence of the Choctaw
court, for murder.
The Germania Bank nt St. Paul, capi
talized at $200,000, was elosetl by State
Examiner Pope. At Zanesville. Ohio, Joseph Itiley,
woodworker, with a wife ami six children, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen
by John Miller.
William C. Peumock, master mechanic
of the Panhandle Railway shops at Logansport, was drowned at Hudson Lake,
IntL, while sailing.
C. M. Foote, grand el a I led leading
knight of the grand lodge, Order of Elks,
died at Minneapolis, from heart failure,
He was 50 years old.
At Columbus, Ohio, the City Council,
by a vote of lo to 3, impeached ami re
moved from office Joseph W. Duseubury,
director of public safety.
The 500 dock laborers at Conaeant har
bor, Ohio, who were out on a strike ail
returned to work, the dock company ac
ceding to every demand of the strikers.
George W. Holladay was shot and
probably fatally wounded by his wife
Annie, at their home. at St. Louis. Mrs. Holladay declares that she acted iu self-
defense.
The large plant of Soininjrs Bros.,
manufacturers of horse collars and leg
Sings, in St. Louis, was totally destroyed
by fire. The damage is estimated nt $u,000 and covered by insurance. Andrew Carnegie has offered East Liv
erpool, Ohio, the sum of $30,000 to erect
a memorial library bearing his name, pro vided the town council would furnish n site. The offer was accepted.
A company has been organized to placi1
automobiles in competition with St. Louis street railways. It is incorporated for
$500,000 and expects to place the vehicles
in operation on or before Oct. 1.
The Supreme Court has nlllrmeil the
validity of the law establishing the new county of Teller, formed from portions of
El Paso and Fremont counties, which
embraces the Cripple Creek district.
Mrs. Louis W. Holladay, who killed
her huibaud, the sou of a wealthy Chi
cago real estate man, was exonerated at
St. Louis by a coroners jury. The ver
dict at the inquest was "justifiable homicide."
Frank Cody, Sam Towns aud George Smith were arrested in Hvansville, Ind.,
charged with counterfeiting. They admitted making dimes, quarters and dollars and said they threw their molds into
Pigeon creek.
John Frazee shot and killed Brazil D. Courts, who had just offered him a drink. The shooting occurred on the boundary
road between Iown and Missouri, near
the little hamlet of Dean. F. D. Pritum
was an eye witness of the tragedy.
TrfSffiier. Minn., was startled hr HjC
himself, dying instantly. Worry over
business matters is supposed to be the cause, aud there is no doubt that the act
was premeditated for several days.
David Coop and George Black, boys 10
years of age, were arrested at Lawrence,
Kan., on a charge of having set fire to a
barn, and have made confessions that
they have started eight fires iu various parts of the town within the past two
years.
The combination of wholesale grocers of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, for the
purpose of purchasing goods in large
quantities, took aeunitc form when the
Western Brokerage Company was incorporated at Des Moines, with a capital
stock or tuu.ouo. The Board of Regents of the Univer
sity of Nebraska has accepted tbe resignation of Chancellor McLean and appointed
uean unarms E. Uessy acting chancellor,
A committee of regents was appointed to pursue a quiet inquiry for a fit successor
to Chancellor McLean.
Mrs. George Trcider shot aud killed her mother, Mrs. Christian Foss, then killed herself, in a farm house near Long Grove, III. Mr. Treidcr, the husband of
the murderess, tried to disarm her and was shot three times. The murder grew out of family quarrels.
The 'conductors and ntotormen of the
Big Consolidated Street Railway system at Cleveland, who were on a strike last month, hare gone out again. Bight hundred men are affected. They claim the company has not lived up to the agreement made which ended the former strike. The farmers of the Arkansas valley are unable to harvest thousands of acres of wheat because of rains which have flooded the country. George W. Watson, at Topeka, says weeds have grown so thiek in the fields thnt the farmers will be unable to harvest the grain. The condition prevails for 100 miles along the Arkansas river. A. W. Blades, his wife and eight children were drowned in northwestern Iowa while en route to Minnesota in an emigrant wagon. The family was encamped
on a Creek when a cloudburst raised the
creek twelve or fifteen feet, and all were
swept away. No trace of them hits been found. Mr. Blades had resided near Tekamah for twenty years?
Mrs. Marion Moore, residing west of Brazil, Ind., met a tragic death in attempting to save her son from harm. White her son Edward was mowing grass in a field near the house his horses raii away. Mrs. Moore ran out to catch the
horses, when she was knocked under the
machine, which crushed and cut her body, causing almost instant death. Pickands, Mather & Co., tbe Cleveland
iron men .have discovered a large body of
high-grade iron ore m the grinder prop
erty, two miles southeast of Stnmlmugh,
Mich, the ore wns discovered with n
diamond drill at a depth of about 21X1
feet. The deposit i sixty feet wide, all
clean ore, running G per cent. In metallic iron it is a non-bessemer, but of n
very desiratlc grade.
SOUTHERN.
Si Smith, who killed William U"ll of Atlanta several months ago, wns shot to
death la the jail at Gainesville, Gu.
Col. William Preston Johnson, New
Orleans, died at Lexington, Vn. Oil. Johnson wan president of Tulanc Univer
sity iu New Orleans. A meeting of the Hayes and Fricfcs families, between whom a feud existed, took place at New Boston, Texas, ami one mnn wns shot dead on the spot aud two others fatally and three seriously wounded. Maj. John Calhoun Courtney, president of the Virginia Society of Atlanta, sec
retary of th.j Capital City Club and man- !
ager of tae Western union Telegraph Company, d ed at his home iu Atlanta, at ; the age of (IS. j Two lynchings took place in Texas in one day recently. Abe Brown, a negro, who murdered a Bohemian woman, was shot to death near Gilead, and aa un-(
known negro was hanged near Iols for
murdering Lemuel Sharp, a boy.
At 3 o'clock the other morning the great smelting plant of the Consolidated
Kansas City Smelting and Refining Com
pany, three miles from Kl Paso, Texas,
was discovered lo be on fire, the stamp
iug works were totally destroyed.
Another feud lias broken out iu Clay
County, Ky., by which live men lost their
lives. These fatalities resulted from
pitched buttle fought near Little Goose
creek, three miles from Manchester. In
feud dates back nearly two years. WASHINGTON. E. D. Holmes, assistant statistician t
the Federal Department of Agriculture, i
going to Texas to study the damage done
to crops and soils and report tlie condi
tion of the farmers in the flooded region, Assistant Comptroller Mitchell has do
cided that the family of a soldier who
died during the Inst war while on fur
lough awaiting discharge is not entitled to receive the extra pay or any part
thereof provided by the net of March 3,
1S!).
The Federal Government litis sent
aceuts to several points in Texas to se
cure horses for service in Cuba. The Federal Government is of the impression
that the Texas horses, or mustang ponies,
are especially adapted to service iu tropical country like Cuba.
While the returned Jamaica delegates
to Washington maintain reserve regard
iug the terms of the reciprocity treaty,
during an interview one of them inadver
tently intimated that coffee would experi
ence a material reduction, if not obtain
a preferential duty over Brazilian coffee
FOREIGN.
The Bavarian diet elections resulted in a great victory of the Centrists, which is admitted to be due to the aid of the so
cialists.
A slight earthquake cansed the col
lapse of a gallery iu the Recklinghausen mine, near Heme, Westphalia, entomb
ing sixty miners.
Japan is now recognized as the equal of other powers, the now treaties with
most of the principal nations of the world
having gone into effect.
The Spanish cabinet has accepted the offer of the Queen Regent to assist tbe
lmances of the country by giving up an other 2,000,000 pesetas from the civi
list. '
Four bombs were exploded in different
parts of Barcelona one morning recently
No serious damage was done, but the ex
eitemenr was intense. The author of the
outrages is unknown.
Captain William A. Andrews, the "lone
navigator, who stirred to cross the At
lantic iu u small boat, was picked up exhausted about 700 miles from the Irish
const and takenKo Liverpool.
A ter.tic tornado iu the province of
Tonsil, Hus'sta. caused great loss of life.
I he city of N ikeuuewskoie is almost en
tirely destroyed. It isi believed that the
loss of life in the province will reach
nearly 200.
. IN GENERAL.
The next annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland will be
at Detroit on Sept. 20 and 27.
Peter Dunne, the Chicago author, is
considering work on a new play in col
lahoratiou with Rudyard Kipling.
Former Gov. Swineford of Alaska has been made recorder of the new Ketchikan
mining district in southeastern Alaska
Chicago capitalists are interested in the
United American Glue Company, which
was organized at New Jersey with a cap
italizatisn of $35,000,000.
The new geyser which recently broke
out before the Fountain Hotel in iellow
stone National Park has been named "Dewey," in honor of the hero of Manila
Bny.
Secretary Hay has decided that Mrs,
Rich, who escaped into Texas, shall be surrendered to the Mexican. ni.Hmrttinc
in the Oty7Tex1cfe,t"f 1,M
the schooner 'Genoa! Siglin, from Cook's Inlet, Alaska, brings news of the drowuing of seven men at Turnagain
Ana. They were crossing ihe arm in a small boat, which was overturned by a
big tidal wave.
J. L. Fowler, Tenth United States cavalry, died on board the Munson line
steamer Klla, from Raracoa and other
Cuban ports, from gastritis. The body
was brought into New lork. Maj. Fow ler was 52 years old.
There is a considerable element at Ha-
vnun endeavoring to sow dissensions
among I he Cubans and to array tbetu
against the Americans. Recently 2,000 leaflets were issued in the city of latan-
zas in ti e form of on address to the peo
ple, signed by "Betaueourt." It charges
the Americans with deception and calls
on the Cubans to devastate the island un
til their flag is recognized. Bradstreet's, reporting the latest devel
opments in crop production, says: "New
features in the general trade situation
this week are of an almost entirely un
favorable character. Late unfavorable
reports from Russia point to a still more
pronounced diminution of crop yields In
that country this year. The official
I rench crop estimates have also been
whittled down, and the outlook seems to
favor the probability that Europe will buy nearly as much wheat in America as
it did in the last fiscal year."
Hard wood lumber has advanced during
the past year at an exceedingly rapid
rate, arid the price is now higher lhau
ever before in the history of the trade in
Minneapolis. The high prices are due to
the shortage in the supply of northern
rowu hard wood aud the rapidly increas
ing uen.and. The Wisconsin hard wood
forests arc gradually being exhausted.
and it is ossertcd on good authority that
the local trade will in a few years have
to depend almost wholly upon the south
ern forests for a supply. Prices now arc from $4 to $7 higher than last year. Every variety of hard wood has been af
fected and all have gone up above the
previous maximum.
MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to Drime.
$3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, 1.0(1 to $4.50; sheep, fuir to choice, $3.00
to wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; onts, No. 2, 24c
to 25c; rye. No. 2, 54c to 5(c; butter, choice creamery, 17e to 19c; eggs, fresh.
uo to i.ic; potatoes, choice now. 38c to
45; per bushel.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.50:
wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 2!)c to 30c.
St. Louis Cattle, $3.50 to $0.00: hoes.
$3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50;
wheat. No. 2, 74c to 7(k-: corn. No. 2
yellow, 34c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 25c to 27c;
e, no. 2, (i:;e to 04c. Cincinnati Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75: hoes.
$3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50;
wheat, No. 2. 70c to 72c: corn. No. 2
mixed, 30c to 37c; onts. No. 2 mixed, 2ic to 2fSc; rye, No. 2, 5!ic to 01c.
Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00: hom.
$3.00 to $4.50; sheen. $2.50 to $4.75:
wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2
yellow, 35c to 37c; fiats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 5c to CiOc. Toledo Wheat, No 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 3(!c; oat No. 2 mixed, 24e to 2llc; rye. No. 2, fit; to r,He; clover seed, new, $3.15 lo $4.05. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 8, 33c to 35c; outs, No. 2 white, 25c lo 2tic; rye. No. 1, 54c to 55c; barley. No. 2, 41c to 43c; pork, mess, $!.00 to $l.50. -Buffalo Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $3.25 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $.',.2r.; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c lo 78c; corn, No. 2, 3!lc to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; butter, creamery, 15c to 10c; eggs, Western, lie to 16c
R. ALGER RESIGNS.
'HE SECRETARY OF WAR QUITS M'KINLEY'S CABINET.
v'ice President Hobart the One to Convey the bequest of tlie President Ills Ketirement Is Atkc.l to Put on Knd to Friction.
Washington special: Gen. Russell A. Alger We 'lorlHiii; called up, mi President M
Hid hnnd-i'd hint his resignation lis ary .if War, to take i-IYc. t at the ic of the 1'ivsldcut. There was n
nesdiiv Kinlcy Secreplcas-
oiu-
lent except that ihe President asked if .e wished to go nt once, and the reply if the Secretary thai lie would iviuuiu ntil the assistant secret ary returned, if !tis sucivsf-i.i- should not be chosen at nice. The story of the resignation is i-iosely I uiirded in .'idiiiiiiistratinu circles, but it s said that the President indirectly nincstctl ihe resignation, and as soon as he Secretary was informed that the f'resideii!. wished him to retire he returnd from Lohj; Kram-h lo Washington ami placed his resignation in the hands of Mr. M. Kinlcy. Tlie politicians have for some weeks been anxious to get Alter out of tlie cabnet. The Pingne alliance was the exuse. They feared it, mil they feared he hostility of Senators .McMillan imd Burrows if Alger ri-iiiaim-d in tlie cabinet. Tiny urged the President to get id of Alger, but McKiulcy said he could not nsk for Mr. Alger's resignation with
SIX MOIIE KILLED IN A FEUD. VVhitc-Hnkev Trouble the Direct Cause of Another Tragedy. As a result of the Whiic-Haker feud, is more vi.-tiuis have been found dead u the mountains m-u!' London, Ky. All are allies of the
two factions, and the direct cause of the presi nt is assigned to the fact that the liriliius took the side of the Whites, mid that the Philpots, the strongest ruction in the in o ii ii l a i n s. n u in b I r i n ." 750 Vot.-S. Sided With li;e i: ;l;ers. "Hob" Philpot was arrest c,l one nioiiiii-.i; rc-
.vi.liy anjl v::s shot while giving a bond. general fusillade fi!.-i-d. in which ive men wen- killed, and the sixtl-.. Kiehlid l.oveii. ivus found three loth s from :ov.n with his head w-vmil (.niu his Jotly. Deputies are I, oilier hurried fi-oin all vcr the State ini Clay County and iiorc shooting is c-Npeeted. Th,1 dead on he White -ide are Hugh Giilliu. James Trillin and Kdanl Fisher. The Baker lilies dead are ltol ert Pbilpnt. Aaron Morris and Richard I. even. Besides the lead several incioliers uf both factions lie seriously wounded.
The liaker Howard feud began
."cmli.-r. IS. I", over
TM MA K Kit.
De
file Tom
mrchase by Maker of a
judgment for 40 hat had been Landed down against A. Ii. Howard. Baker had some of
Howard's good
St feV
I - -T- 1
Howard s goo, I ft K ei?ed. aid thus o .ir'Urinatcd a bad Ss.j 'J. feeling whi -h devi l--.iiui' into iiuarrcls. ':s5,' '
1- roi'i tiuii i icis ii
went to list lights, WIKK1FK WHITE. :hen tluhs. then revolvers ami rilles and 'nivcs. Tom Baker is the eleventh man :o lost bis life in the feud and the cud s not jet. it is, said there are mt twelve 'lien ii Clay Comity who are no-: personally interested ill the feud to Ihe extent uf Joing desperate deeds if the occasion cc:nc1 to demand it. If the trouble is Jot sum straightened out it looks as if day I'ouiity would, before long, be the
OKNEIIAL 11. A. Al.Ol-ft.
such an excuse. President Lincoln had
refused lo accept Secretary Chase's resig
nation from the cabinet, even after h knew that Chase w:is scheming to be ; presidential candidate against him.
President McKinley said he could not
ask Mr. Alger to leave the cabinet be
cause he bad announced bis cainiiducy
for United States Senator from Michi
gan. The members of the cabinet w
more open to the nrguiiient of the men
who wanted Alger out of the way of the
success of the administration. They
agreed that the Secretary of War inns'.
bp sacrificed, and they expressed their
views ti the President.
At this stage in the developments. At
torney General (Jriggs was sent as a ines
senger no Vice-President Hobart, to ask
the Vice-President to advise Alger to re
sign. Mr. lloli.-irt agreed to undertake
ihe delicate mission of saying to lieji
Alger what the President and other mem
hers i f tlie cabinet would not say to him
He telegraphed Secretary Alger, inviting him to spend a few days with lam at his
Long lirancli cottage. When the Sec
lary arrived and the two men had mi op portuuiiy to talk freely, Mr. Hobart nil
. I SCO .iij;rr iu n-i;ir, HIJ log Uuf- -
couuiry was against him and that lie might sis well recognize that he must be
bucrihcod.
Gen. Alger asked if the Vice-President KHke only for himself or at the sugges
tion or others. Mr. Hobart hud to tell
him the whole story, that the President wanted his resignation, but did not wish to ask for it; that Attorney General
nggs iiud tteen the messenger of the
President mid the cabinet to him, and
that he (Hobart) was merely the neeiit
of the administration in advising Alger
ro retire.
lien. Alger remarked thnt lie would hand the President his resignation as
soon ns he returned to Washington. He
said he had snpposi-d that he and the
President were on terms of friendsliin
justifying iriiiuciiess regarding this sitna
tion, but all he desired was to know the
t resident pleasure. He returned to
W nshmgton and handed his resignation
to 1 resident Mclvinley.
ALASKAN DISPUTE
HOPELESS.
Mich
Indefinite Postponement of
Joint Commission Likely,
A Washington dispatch asserts that
the administration 1ms iiracticallv aban
doned hope of a settlement of the Alas
kan boundary questiou, and the inilien
Hons are that the meeting of the joint
high commission will lie indefinitely post
poned, ilchmtc action ou this noinl
however, will not be taken until after the
arrival of Senator ! iiiibanks. A conference will then be held by Senator Fair
banks, Secretary Hay, John Foster and
John A. Kasson, and the boundary ques-
11.111 discussed nt length.
Ihe best the authorities hope for now
is that there will he no clash iu the remaining few weeks of the mining season.
Ihe si Hint ion is grave, with the Ameri-
nn miners on one side in a state of irri
tation and the Canadian constabulary on tin: other iu n very aggressive mom I
Should the clash come it will not lie
tlirongli the fa.ilt of this Government. Kverything has been done to prevent action which will cause bloodshed.
News of Minor Note. Texas floods duiuuged railroads $2.-
000,000.
Essex Hotel, Bloomlield, N. J., was de
stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000.
Noiimituni block, Newton, Mass de
stroyed by fire. Loss $20,000.
Baimiril Oliver. 22, Newark, N. J., killd his wife by shooting, then escaped. Chas. Jones, New Vork porter, fell
down un air shaft and was killed.
Dan L. Davis, Wayuiml, Ohio, while
intoxicated, fell under a train and was killed.
Harry Ruder, Nazareth, Pa., nttcnmtcd
to dronn his dug aud wis himself drottu-
d. IK Lincoln, Hyde Park, Mass. is suf
fering from a disease supposed to be lep
rosy.
Stephen W. Paine, commercial traveler.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., committed suicide by shooting.
Four thousand Tampa, Fla., eig.innak-
crs are out of work over a disagreement
with employers.
Bos on has $;i.K(H) from the JoiusUnvn
flood fund which will be sent to the
Texas sufferers.
Pedro Orizar, 15, New Vork, who was
:i cnb n buy of the i.scayn. Uus enlisted
U the navy.
Flii- ill the Fitzgerald building. Prin
cess Anna, Mil., destroyed pri.ticrty valued lit $1 5,000.
Dock meu and iron mongers, iiilhoa.
Spain, have declared a strike. Over 1,000 men tre ttlfectetl.
Five Brooklyn school teachers were se
riously injured on Stateu Island while
wheeling down a sleep hill.
Rumored that President .McKinlev was-
to purchase the old McKinley home nt Canton, Ohio, now owned by Mrs. Hurler.
BlMiii
CI.AT COtrXTY COfRT IIOISE.
TRUTH KEPT SECRET.
fcene vf a small but bloody war. Juilgt
Dnearof Mount Sterling says Hoops will
.lave to be withdrawn, and thai the only
cray will be to let the Howards and Batein fight it out among themselves.
MOVE TOWARD PEACE.
Agiiinaldo and Sonic of Ms l eaders
Muke (v -rtures. A Wasbiiigtoii special u Tuesday says Important cablegrams have been rect-iv ?d at the Stale Department from flu
Philippine coiiilnissi.in mid at the War Department from Gen. Otis concerning a
jew move in the direction of peace.
f the President for several days, but he
las declined to make them pub ic because
the ultra optimistic views heretofore
ivived from the same source have not
'jecn borne out by subsequent events.
tne latest dispatches. However, are
.uore encouraging than the previous ones.
but the President wishes to have some
.Kisitive results before making them pub
lie. All that can be learned definitely
ilstiit them is that direct overtures for
neace have been made to Gen. Otis by
Aguimildo i.nd some of his principal lead
ers. It was said by a cabinet ouVinl that
'f the promises are fullilled ihe volunteers
now being enlisted will not be needed.
Tte NeWs If
Ooni Paul will doubtless feel a little
sheepish when he lies down with the lion.
It understood that rain only made Jen. Fuustou's swims the more agree-
aide.
When the war is over, Aguinnldo should
form a baseball team, It'u the ruus that
COllllt.
They say Ihe electrical show is the most
shocking thing on the board in New Vork.
New York's last horse show was a fail
ure, that city should now hold a horseless show.
Soldiers in the Philippines lire to wear
tun shoes. Corbin desires to match their
complexions.
Why should any one want to cause
Congressman Roberts trouble? He has three wives.
The Boston Globe asks how It would
feel to be run over by au automobile.
Probably it would produce that rubbei
tired feeling.
Thirty people nt Detroit were poisoned
by ice cream. This is euough to make one shiver with herror.
The Pittsburg Telegraph calls Auui-
naldo a dictator. He is certainly a creat
hap for running tilings. The sublime porle distrusts the peace
conference. Things may be coniinir Ilia
uivalesceuey's way, but it looks Ar
uiema.
Of course, there will be ivonla mean
enough to call attention ro the fact that
those Western cyclones sneaked in on ihe
(Vent her bureau.
If that Chicago river catches fire munv
inn-e limes ihe old tliinK will have to be naked 'ill it is wet.
Aguinnldo has not lost all his capitals
et. ile still has the one he wears ul the
rout cud of his iiuiiic.
What a long lime it hits been since anv
mention of "the Kuropcan concert" has
;iccn printed in ihe newspapers!
Still, it will probably be better lo post
pone the arrangements for the wakes of
both Aguinnldo and Luna, iu order to lire
cut their disturbing the proceedings. The manufacturers of wooden pump?
have been holding a convention, and thr (inlilie is ijuiie prepared lo hear that thej
uceccvted iu ptimp:iig up prices.
11,-wey did not Singapore song on his rrival at the Straiis Sell It iiients. II, aid his health was iniproi iug. After .irr iglng for his wedding thref
inns, a youth engaged to an Indiana irir
dually disappeared. The girl fared bettci
linn she yet suspects.
The transfer of allegiance to the Brit h sovctcigi by the Bradley-Martins it
uly one more argument against any Au
Iti-Anierit tin alliance.
A Pennsylvania orator removed coat
:ollur, necktie aud suspenders while inak
ng a Fourth of July speech. It is pleas Jig to note that he did not discard th
dot of his t-ration.
GEN.
OTIS IS ACCUSED OF ING FACTS.
HID
Newspaper Meu at Manila File i Formal Protest Auainst Uiatortlor cf Their Press Tclcgronm -Dispute! Via Hong Koiik f tardea Wnshingtor
Wushlugtou special: The protiv.t received nt Washington h; cable via Hong Kong, from tiewspapo correspondents in Manila against the ceti sorship established by Gen. Otis hu; eaused a profound sensation iu tlovei-u lllelll cireles. The protest sets forth that news ba been suppressed and that the newspapei men have I ecu compelled "to participuli iu misrepresentation" by the action of tin censor in "excising or altering uneontro vetted stati-nii nts of fact." Tbe protest is signed by John P. Dunning, Robert M. Collins and L. Jones of the Associated Press: s. Kceiic of the Scripps-McKui Assoeiatiou, Osear K. Duels and P. G. McDonnell of the New Vork Sun, John 1'. l'ltiss and Will Dinwiddle of the New Voi-k Herald, John T. McCntcheou and Harry Armstrong of tbe Chicago Record, and Richard II. Little of the Chicago Tribune. That the telegraphic reports of Gen. litis were censored at the War Department was well known, but the impression has been that newspaper corrcspondenti? were permitted to send about what they wanted to, provided they avoided mentioning future military movements. The disclosures of the extent to which Gen. litis has deprived the country of proper information have continued a loiet belief that the general in command was iifriiiil to have the truth known, and it is liclievcil his official dispatches have been distorted to conceal his mistakes in the belief that the censorship would prevent the press correspondents from sending the facts. It has been a general maxim among army men that new spaper correspondents are privileged to give ncttial results ot battles iu their own language, the censorship being restricted to the prevention of the news of future military movements from reaching the enemy. litis b:ipcs the News. Gen. Otis has apparently proceeded far beyond this, and has assumed to dictate what shall be sent and how the story shall be told. It seems to bo well understood about the department that Geu. Olis has made a serious blunder in at
tempting to deceive the people of the Ciiititl Slates as to the situation in the Philippines, for now even his truthful reports will not be believed, and the peo pie will naturally think tbe conditions on the island much worse than they really are. It has been painfully felt at the War Department that Gen. Otis made a mistake in net getting out to the tiring Hue now and then, but us the insurgents were north, south and east of Manila it was supposed that he felt he could best direct operations from the city. The failure of
.me strategical movement after a not he
was plainly evident, and yet the general continued to scud in the most optimistic
vt'iu irts.
The result of the formal protest by the
correspondents has been to cast suspicion
on the official reports of Geu. Otis as 1
the situation, and it is admitted that now
the only course will be for the President
to interfere and modify the censorship uf
Manila, so that the correspondents urn
be permitted to describe the situation as
it is, which will be a salutary check on
the commanding general.
It would not be tit all surprising if the
explosion should result in the recoil
Gi-ii. Olis before the rainy season ends.
It is recognized thnt his usefulness will be destroyed as soon us the people learn that he lias systematically deceived them
as to the situation ill Luzon.
Army men say the published protest
n: .i tasi amount cif harm, and the,
think the tiirrespnndents should have ca
bled the President direct, and thus hav
avoided scandal. lffiiorc Rouud Kohin.
At the regular semi-weekly Cabinet
meeting Tuesday au extraordinary prob
lem of ihe Philippine war presented it
self. The newspaper correspondents'
"round robin was by far the most ler
plcxiug iitiestiou the President and his.
cabinet had met in many days. The cabi
net was divided as to tbe manner of deal
big with it. The members condemned ii
to a man iu private conversation. Two
members expressed opinions iu favor o:
deporting the correspondents. But iu nl
these expressions there was u sober ad:
mission that public opinion as to tilts
rights and limitations of the press in wui
have gtcally changed since Gen. Teeiim
sell" Sherman disciplined Whitelaw Reid and Gen. Jeff C. Davis sent the lata
"Joe" McCullagh out of camp in a rag
ing snow-storm one night.
It was stated at the Wnr Department Tuesday that no attention whatever
would be paid to the "round robin" of the
Manila correspondents. The protest was
not sent lo lien. Otis, and it is said will not l and Geu. Otis will not be called
upon for an explanation. In addition to
this it was intimated that very encour
aging news had been received from the
Philippines, ACCUSES SECRETARY GAGE.
Worthiugton C. Ford of Boston Tells
Talcs Out of School.
Secretary I.yuian J. Gage is accused of misstatements by Worthiugton C. Ford of Boston, former chief of the bureau of
statistics. Mr. Ford declares that h
was rc) nested to resign his office in the
bureau of statistics without any excuse being assigned, but that the position was
desired for another man.
Ford says that his place was taken by
O. P. Austin, a Washington journalist,
who was not required to pass nny exam
iiiatioii. Austin has been given, Mr,
Ford declares, live "emergency" appoint
ments, thus keeping him in office ever
since.
INCOME AND
WAGES AND COST OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES.
'arulngs of American Workinaatcn Have Increased! While the Price of Food and Other N'ccesaacies Have Decreased In the l'usit Twenty Years,
A comparison of the wages paid ami their purelinHiriR- povor iu LSflS nud ISTu "i v. ;ils .sumo luteri.'.slilig fipcls Iu support of the contention that of all the workpeople tu llio world those ot ihe I'll. ted State. are Uic 'best pit Id. tint best fed, the best clothed aud t'.ie best housed. II was shown In the Mas.sa-i-htisetls Labor RtiiL-iln for January, ISI)!), that, taking; the average of daily wages for eighteen different occupations in twelve Ani 'iic in cities, there had been nii:ed In lsos over 1S72 an advance In sixteen of ih ; avocations, while in the- tfii.alutng two tb.i wages teiiiitiued the siime. But it also appears that the workingninu has gained lu another direction, thnt of lower prices for the necessaries of Hfo. The prices of groceries a id provisions the articles for which thi greater iJtu't of ordinary wages is spent, have decreased as w.iges lut' i! advanced. Iu these two general clashes the only articles that are higher now than twenty odd years ago are cornmeal and mutton chops. Tha purchasing poivir of wages Is set fo;tli lit tho following table;
OTTTttfl ' announcement of Senator Piatt of MeW
uuu ... iiuiul , cuivm: o, fctJUBJIA" vania practically pledges these two great States to the support of McKinley, and there Is little doubt ::hat other Statef;, tnking this cue, will from time to time express a like preference. Although unforeseen events often
; make quick and radical changes in politics. It would be difficult, to conj eelve any outcome of present affairs that would prove Inimical to the iuter- ! esls of the President's candidacy for a Bcciini term. Kven a continuation of tho war iu the Philippines which seem.- unlikely could not undo the great prestige that the President has achieved In bis admirable conduct of the war with Spain. It will doubtless i be admitted that for other' reasons, ns J well is for those connected with the ( war, McKinley is much stronger with j the people than when he cniiie before j them at the time of his election. The
wonderful prosperity of the country, iu till lilies of industry and enterprise, shotili In Itself convince the masses finally of the superiority of Republican doctr ties nnd administrations. Kan sas City (Mo.) Journal.
l-'loiir, wheat Hlce Menus Tell Celfee (rousted) Sugar (good brown) . . Soup (common) Beef (rousilugj
H.at)
2.10 3,f( 21.28 23.M C.S5 Hays. :isa 1.52
OUTLAWS KILL A SHERIFF.
Fosse Pcurchluur for Train Robbers
Fulls Into Ambush.
Sheriff K. J. Fair and u posse of five
incu searching for the outlaws who held up a train at Folsom came upon them unexpectedly near Cimarron, N. M., Sun
day and a despernto bnltle ensued. Sher
iff 1 - hit was killed, two of his posse, Hep
uties Love and Smith of Springer, N. M.
were seriously wounded, mid the others,
iui Iuding W. It. Reno, chief of the secret
service department of the Colorado and
Southern Railway, were badly wounded
Telegraphic Brevities Gallagher's Hotel, Laporte, Pa., burned. Loss about $50,000. F.leclric train at Norfolk, Vs., fatally injured Kdnard Holmes. Miss Helen Gould sent $2.10 to the New Richmond, Wis., tornado sufferers. i'nitcd States Worsted Company, Louisville, Ky., will go into tho trust. Charles Swartsfuger is wanted at Krie. Pa., for killiug Clarence K. Shattuck. Pennsylvania coal operators may introduce American i mhriicite in Kurope. Samuel Schwartz, New York, was killed while trying to jump from an elevator. Sir Thomtii l.iptou, London, says the Shamrock will sr.il for New York early, in August. Said that another session or the peace conference will be necessary to complete its work. Whole herds of cattle have been stolen by brigands in western Cuba. Farmers are terror stricken. Export from Matansas, Cuba, to the Vuited Slates the past six months amounted tu J2,-.'87,70-. Over Sim) miners in Broekwood and Millilule, Ala., struck because the operators refuse to pay the wage scale recently agreed upon.
- -What $1 wmild tiny InPounds. Puunus,
1S.1S S.IW lo.rri 1.45 2.35
... !0 ...12.50 . . . .-.) Dajc
Rent (four-room apartment). . 2.02 board mien) 1.21 lioard (women) I.b7
It will be si:en fron these comparisons ibat th condition of the wage latuer, estimated ou a purely nia'criul basis, is about 30 per cent, better than It was twenty odd years ago. It must also be remembered that the comparisons here made are on scales of 1S07. In most line..-, of industry wages have been advanced from ii to 30 psr cent, within a year, and as they are still advancing aud prices of provisions are still falling, the wage earners' condition is even better now than here indicated, and will be still better a year hence. It is the blast of protection that It has raised wages aud lowered prices at one and the same time. It has made life easlef and happier to countless millions of people, and it has made the United States the spot toward which the toilers of other countries look with longing eyes.
Prosperity and Wage Advances. Attention tas heretofore been directed in these columns to the steady tipward tendency in the wages of American labor, but every day brings additions to tbe long list of corporations and firms which have advanced the pay of their employes. Iu nearly every :ase the increase Is purely voluntary. The movement began the moment capital recovered its confidence and hopefulness. An era of exceptional activity tavlug opened, labor shares the benefit tud prolit accruing from the return of good times. The iron industry and allied branches jtave beeoi.iiiwiciall.v -prosperous, owins to foreign demands as well as the domestic revival, an-l labor In this wide Held has fell the quickening effects of tbe change. In Chicago alone, it la esti
mated 30.000 men employed In machinery manufacture have had their wages Increased from S to 30 per cent. Other Industries Iwve been similarly affected, and from every industrial center in the country reports of wage advances are brought by the telegraph. Little is said about these facts at anti-trust banquets and silver conferences. Their moral is so plain that the most export political sophists find It safer to ignore them. Business has confidence In the future. The gold Rtandard is established, and the party which still labors to undermine it has uot tlie shadow of a chance. It Is divided, distracted, leaderlcss and conscious of its fate. There is at present uo cloud on the industrial horizon even as big as a man's hand. We have our own home market in Its best estate and are making rapid and groat strides In foreign markets. Commercial expansion is a certainty, and there are no drawbacks to It. It Is tho direct and Inevitable result of natural opportunities, enterprise and skilled labor. The outlook, then, alike to capital nnd to labor. Is most encouraging. Chicago Post
Democratic Issues. A Chicago newspaper has been asking members of the Democratic National Committee to give their opinion as to what things are likely to be espoused by tbe next national Democratic convention. The answers taken collectively cannot be said to lead to nny definite conclusion except the general statement that the Democracy Is evi
dently puzzled to know where it i at. Nearly all tbe committeemen expect that silver will lie. an issue. Some
J-j make it the begin-all and end-all of
cuit,vi uiit: uutrtriutr, incir one ruie twu guide to faith. Others want it to be co-equal with the trust issue. And then there are those who would have It equally yoked with anti-cxpanslon. The interviews served but one purpose, and that Is to show that there is at present no cohesive force in Democracy. More than ever tlie party is without pride la its ancestry or hope in Its posterity. Tbe leaders know that, barring accidents and blunders, they have no chance to win. How could tt be otherwise? The last time the Democratic party was given full control of the government, it made in isei able use of its opportunities. It bad grown strong in opposition, but the very moment It faced responsibility, It: went to plies. Through tts vacillation aud incompetency, the country was brought to the verge of Industrial panic and universal ruin. So demoralized did It become that before its lease of power had expired. It surrendered body and soul to populism at8 lent its conservative name and record to a revolutionary campaign. The majority of its respectable leaders retired from all places of responsibility and left it to its fate. For the last three years, it has been nothing but a disorganized mob. It lias been without leadership In Congress and out of It, for that matter, for Bryan can scarcely be called the leader, though possibly bo is worthy to be known as an exhort er. Cedar Rapids Republican.
The Republican Style. The total production of tin plate by American mechanics since tbe passage of the McKinley tariff has been 2,235,500,(20 pounds, and tbe price to consumers bas declined one-fourth. That Is the Republican style of carrying on business. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Questionable Distinction. Those are Indeed doubtful honors which college students have won In
competing for the prizes offered for
essays by the New England Free Trade
League. Rightly does the Philadelphia
Inquirer protest ugainst the granting
of aid and comfort to the enemy by tlie
Pennsylvania. University through the
contributions of Its undergraduates to the literature of Cobdeulsm. U. P. has been a citadel of protection located In the heart of a region immensely benefited by the policy of defense of
American labor and industry; (irmly
settled It is, too, lu the hearts of u peo
ple grown prosperous and powerful through the operations of that same
policy.
With much malign satisfaction, there-
foro, must Ihe New England Free Trade League have disbursed its prize money to the I. I. essay writers. Not having been permitted to ascertain tho quality of these lucubrations, we cauuot speak of them with certainty, but
It is safe to say that they are not of a
character to rellec credit el titer upon
he students or their alma mater.
When Trails thrive Rest. The time when monopolistic trusts
thrive is when business Is dull. Then they can extort monopolistic prices be
cause business men are not willing to
Isk money In a new venture In order
to compete with them. When the coun
try Is prosperous, when, as Is the case to-day, money is plenty and cheap, and
when investors are eagerly seeking new nvivnties for Investment, no trade com
bination can bold a monopoly on any
thing. A protective tariff, therefore, being the creator of prosperity, instead of promoting monopolistic trusts, as is
charged by the free-traders, is their
lleadllest enemy, and protection menus
prosperity.
VcKlnlcy and the Second Term. W hile there has been no doubt ever
since President McKinley's aduiinls-
tratloa wns fairly smarted that be would bo nominated for a second term, aud wulle confidence in this outcome has been strengthened as the adminis
tration has advanced, It Is gratifying
to note that thus early there are some
authoritative declarations favoring tbe present incumbent over nil other aspir
ants to the Presidential chair. The
Happened in Canada. Ore iron plant has been closed and its big force of workmen released Indefinitely. But tbe thing happened over in Canada. Iron works on this side of the line begin to need more storage room for their surplus orders,
r innpea 10 z,ero. Sb-3ep and wool clip in Kansas last year increased IS per cent, under the favorable operations of the Diugley tarlf. Under the Wilson bill the Kansas sheep industry slumped to praci .... 1 1 .. .... n- . i - , , I . . I
Livsttj Actu. .ivt'ctku e.uu.j Vfttyttsf. NatlonaL in Fact, From all accounts, David B. Henderson, of Iowa, is a northeastsouthwesterner. Los Angeles Express.
Down and Oak
Whither Ambit'on Leads. Tie secret of the worldly success ot the American people lies In the bound
less and ceaseless ambition of each In dividual living in this land of opportunltlcs. The poor man is always striving co be rich; the rich man la forever striv lug to be great. And so on through every walk of life. The aim of the whole nation Is toward higher and better things, l'he merit of modesty is Invariably recognized by our people, but is sometimes apparently lost sight of In the necessary struggle toward the lofty achievements that lie within .the grasp of our humblest citizens. Those self-evident facts were emphatically brought out by recent ln cident In a Boston hotel. A peraoq with a conspicuous servant iu attend? ance preseutcd himself at tbe office am) registered his name In large capitals running across the page: RICHAllD HARDING OA VIS AND VALET. The next guest to arrive was a genuine American with all a true American's hopes, ambitions und possibilities. He registered: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER AND VALISE. Kven the president of the Standard Oil Com .any has ideals that he is shooting at, Chicago Inter Ocean.
Stratiire Part of It. The women rush into matrimony with strange willingness, considering that to the most of them it means only a change of bosses and poorer pay than they received at their last plac;s. AtcUison Globe. A Delicate Compliment. Mrs. Mi.tchmaker Mr. Wise, I take it from your interest In my daugbtec Pearl that you're n gem connoisseur. Mr. Wise It's duo, madamc, (o my ' great admlrnttoj.'for mother ot PearL The Jewelers' Weekly.
Sure "of It.
Mrs. Gotrox Mabel, dear, are yon -
siiro Mi Wnnilliv loves vnn fni vans
self alone?
I .. 1. .. I X' Y ' ... ... . ...
,...'. A V . U DU1C UW, MtMW ma. Ho Is always so restless when-.
you are In the room. Tit-Bits.
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