Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 December 1899 — Page 2

Republican Progress.

BLOOMINGTON. IND.

DENNIS B. HAUNGS, - Proprietor.

1899. DECEMBER. 1899,

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CTRCLDfG THE GLOBE

CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS' DOINGS

t ntelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of ttao Civilised 'World Embracing Foreign A9ftir and Home Happenings

BATOMBONG TAKEN.

The Commander Surrenders with Eight Hundred Men and Officers. Manila special: Gen. Conon surrendered BOO officers and men, with rifles, several American and military Spanish prisoners, and the garrison at Bayombong, province of Neuva Vizcaya, to Lieut. Monroe, with fifty men of the Fourth Cavalry. Washington special: Considerable interest is felt here in the news that the insurgents at Bayombong have surrendered, particularly as the number is said to exceed that captured by the United States troops at any one time. Bayombong is the city to which Aguinaldo at one time contemplated retreating for the purpose of locating the rebel capital, after he was forced to flee from Tarlac, but the American troops pressed him so hard that he was unable to carry out his intention. Lives Lost in Storm. A dispatch from Kockport, Texas, says:

Reports from a number of points on the gulf in this section, show that the damage to property and loss of life by the recent severe storm were much greater than at

first reported. The bodies of James Sau

ders and two other men who have not yet been identified, have been found in the

mouth of St. Charles Bay. Several thou

sand head of sheep and hundreds of head of cattle were driven into the gulf by the

storm and drowned. One ranchman lost

over three thousand head of cattle in this

manner. Highwayman Is Shot Dead.

Harry H. Trumball, a collector for the Packers' National Bank of South Omaha,

was Held up by foot-pads as he was leav

ing the bank the other night. After some lively work on both sides Trumball shot

one of the highwaymen through the heart

and wounded the other, who escaped. The

dead man is a mulatto, and is believed to

be "Kid" Sley, a well-known local bad

man, who was recently released from the penitentiary. Boers Driven Back. A dispatch to the London Evening News from Cape Town says a force of Boers, while trying to blow up the Colenso bridge, were driven back by the British artillery. This dispatch indicates that !Gen. Hildyard, who is advancing to the relief of Ladysmith, has overcome the obstacles at Frere and reached the south shore of the Tugela River. Will Withdraw Troops. Gen. Leonard Wood, who has reached Washington, iad a two hours' conference with the Secretary of War. After the conference Secretary Root announced that hia recommendations as to the removal oi troops from Cuba had been approved and that orders would be issued putting them into effect. Killed on a Crossing. A Pennsylvania train crashed into a stage at Cranberry Crossing, near Hazleton, Pa., killing Miss Davidson of Grafton, W. Va.; Miss Emma Goeddec of Butler, and Mrs. Paisley of Harwood. Toney Cherby of Hazleton, the driver of the coach, was severely injured.

SHIP'S MISSION A MYSTERY. Vessel at Mare Island to Go to Panama Under Sealed Orders. The United States ship Ranger, now lying at Mare Island, San Francisco, has been quietly fitted out for some long voyage, and well-founded rumors are current that she is bent on some secret mission. The officers of the warship refuse to discuss the nature of the voyage. Several six-inch guns are being placed in position on the vessel. The only thing the officers will admit is that the Ranger has been ordered to Panama, and will sail parly in December. Sealed instructions have been received from Washington, to be opened on arrival at Panama. It is believed by naval men in San Francisco that the Ranger's ultimate destination is Manila, and that she will be anchored for shore duty at some of the new ports recently taken from the rebels.

SON HELD FOR MOTHER'S DEATH. Alfred Swingle in Jail at Zanesville, ()., on a Charge of Murder. Alfred Swingle, 14 years old, is in jail at' Zanesville, Ohio, charged with shooting and killing his mother, Mrs. John Swingle, near Stovertown. It was at first thought Mrs. Swingle had been murdered by a trump. Suspicion began to point to the son, who told conflicting stories, and when questioned at the coroner's inquest he broke down and confessed. The lad stated that the shooting

was accidental ; that the gun was already loaded, and that when he happened to

pick it up it was discharged, the load entering his mother's head, killing her instantly. The boy's story is contradicted

in part by his father, who says that the gun had not been loaded for some time and that both barrels were empty when he went to work in the morning.

GREAT STOKES BUKN. lEEPOET BY WILSON.

LOSS

OF OVEFi $3,000,000 PHILADELPHIA.

IN

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

REVIEWS HIS YEAR S WORK.

END OF FOOTBALL SEASON.

Entire Block of Business Houses Destroyed Eippineott's Burned Out: Two Big Department Stores Are Re

duced to Ruins Suicide in Midlake.

Declares There Has Been Progress in the Department-Tree-Planting and Road Building Among Reforms The

Weather Service Has Been Extended

Many Hunters Are Killed. The deer hunting season just ended resulted in a total of eleven hunters killed and seven wounded in the Michigan and Lake Superior sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of them were mistaken

for deer. Sam jn Caugh,t in Ireland. London special: Michael Sampson, exCity Auditor of Chicago, was arrested near Limerick, Ireland, on a charge of embezzlement. He was arraigned in Bow Street Police Court and remanded.

STARVES IN A PULLMAN CAR.

Illinois Man Sick as a Result of Riding

in Linen Closet. A well-educated young man who says

he is Charles Hassinger of Collinsville,

111., is under the care of the St. Joseph, Mo., city physician, suffering from hun

ger and injuries caused by remaining several days in a cramped position in a linen closet of a Pullman sleeping car bound for East St. Louis from San Francisco. Hassinger says that he gave the porter

in charge of the car an overcoat and a few dollars, all the money he had, for permitting him to ride from Sacramento. He was compelled to seek medical aid at

St. Joseph. FARMER SHOOTS TWO OFFICERS.

Attempt to Levy an Execution Results in a Double Tragedy. Near Chicago Junction, Ohio, Constable William Smith was killed and Marshal J . T. Conklin of Plymouth was fatally wounded by Ezra Moore, a farmer. The officers went to Moore's house to levy an execution and Moore became incensed. Seizing a gun, Moore shot Smith in the head and Conklin in the head and shoulder. Smith died in a few minutes.

An electric spark in the . basement of; Partridge & Richardson's big department store, 15 to 20 North Eighth street, Philadelphia, started a lire that in less than four hours laid in ashes nearly an entire; block of business Louses and caused an: estimated loss of over $3,000,000. The!

heaviest losers are J. B. Lipnincott &

Co., book publishers, whose big six-story

brick building, containing rare and valua-l ble plates and machinery, was completely gutted, involving a loss estimated by a;

member of the firm at $2,000,000. The

next heaviest loser was Partridge &

Richardson. Their loss on building and

contents is estimated at $600,000. Lit Brothers, whose department store adjoins

the Lippincott building, estimate their

loss at $400,000. .In addition to the big

houses mentioned numerous smaller

stores were either gutted or badly dam

aged. Chief among these were Bailey's

5 and 10 cent store, loss $100,000, and

Rosenberg's millinery establishment, loss

$30,000.

tCUTS HIS WIFE WITH AN AX.

Then Sets Fire to His House and Per

ishes in the Flames.

At Duluth, Minn., Jacob Schneider at

tacked his wife, Mary, with a meat ax at their home in an isolated portion of the city, and after cutting her horribly saturated the house with kerosene ana set fire to it. He perished in the flames, but

the wife was saved by her daughter. Three other women in the house ran to the rescue of the wife, but Schneider drove them out of the house. Schneider

had borne a good reputation, but his home

life had not been pleasant.

war Shot Wife and Himself. Louis Bach of Brooklyn, N. Y., attempted to kill his wife, wounding her twice, with a pistol. She fell in a faint, and Bach, thinking her dead, shot himself through the brain. Bach wished his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bobbins of Denver, to give him $5,000, but his wife objected. This led to a quarrel between husband and wife. Dying try Hundreds. Yokohama advices say that a terrible condition of affairs prevails at .New Chwang, Manchuria, with respect to the bubonic plague. Hundreds of deaths are occurring weekly, the mortality reaching forty to sixty every day. The disease is beginning to spread over Manchuria. Gets French Scientific Medal. Dr. William R. Brooks, director of Smith Observatory, has just been awarded by the Paris Academy of Sciences the Grand Lalande prize for his numerous and brilliant astronomical discoveries. The prize is a gold medal worth 500 francs. Hardwick Bill Is Beaten. The negroes of Georgia will continue

to exercise unrestricted the right of suf

frage. The house by a vote of 137 to 3 defeated the bill offered by Mr. Hardwick of Washington County, calling for j

the practical disfranchisement of the negro.

Big Purchase of J5inc Property. "Z

The Colonial Zinc Company of New York has purchased from C. E. Mayne

of Omaha a forty-acre mineral lease and the Mayne mill, near Galena, Kan., 110

acres of mineral land of the Free Coin

age mine and lease, including two mills, the Blue Wing and several large and

small zinc and lead mines and first leases on three tracts of rich mineral lands near

Carterville, Mo. The consideration was

$300,000. Jumps from Boat in Midlake. Officers of the Flint and Pere Mar

quette steamer. No. 3 reported on their

arrival at Milwaukee from Ludington

that a passenger named Max PfGpi.ug

of Janesville, Wis., committed suicide by jumping overboard while the etcsmer was in midlake en route to Milwaukee. Pfenning was 00 years old. No cause is known for his act.

Many Hunters Are Killed. The deer hunting season recently ended resulted in a 'total of eleven hunters killed and seven wounded in the Michigan and Lake Superior sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of them were mistaken for deer. Husband Dead, Wife Missing. The dead body of John Cremeaus, with a bullet hole in the head, was found in a bed in his late home at Glenwood, Ohio. Cremeaus was an aged and wealthy citizen. His young wife cannot be found. Clerk Dropped from Rolls. N. E. Dawson, a clerk in the office of Gen. Miles, has been dropped from its rolls on account of letters he has written to officials of the Government reflecting upon the President.

George R. Davis Is Dead. Col. George R. Davis, most prominently known for his official connection with the Wrorld's Fair as director general, died at his home in Chicago of palpitation of the heart.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Town Wiped Out by Fire. The entire business portion of Onanoocoke, Accomac County, Va., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 100,000, with $25,000 insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown.

A Vessel and Crew Lost. A dispatch from St. John's N. F., says: The schooner Seraphis, bound for the Ba$ of Islands, is believed to have been foundered, with her crew of seven men.

Sail for Manila. The transports Dolny Vostock and Co

lumbia have sailed for Manila from San Francisco with the Forty second Infantry on board. Gen. Methuen Wounded. London special: It is officially an Bounced that (Jen. Methuen was among those wounded at the battle of Modder Rivfir.

Promised Big Profits. The doors of the home office of the In

vestors' Trust, 1221 Arch street, Philadelphia, doing business exclusively with patrons outside the city and promising

large profits on investments, have been closed. Efforts to find the president, secretary and cashier are unavailing.

Murder to Insure Freedom. At Wilburton, I. T., two masked rob

bers knocked Postmaster M. A. Cox senseless, robbed the postoffice safe of

$300, and, while escaping, shot and in

stantly killed United Stales Deputy Marshal Henry Prekenbaugh. Torpedo Boat Is Very Fast. The new torpedo boat Craven had her builders' trial over the Southporfc course. She made one knot at the rate of 31.07 and two knots at the rate of 30.75. She developed greater speed than the Dahlgren attained. Cherokee Treaty Is Revived, i After killing the late Cherokee treaty, the Cherokee council took it up again the next day and passed the bill, extending the time for ratification by Congress and asking that body to make certain changes in the document.

Garland, Tex., Destroyed. The town of Garland, Texas, with 2,000 inhabitants and an important business point twelve miles from Dallas, was destroyed by fire. The property loss, exclusive of cotton and railroad interests, cannot fall below $100,000.

Bryan Rents Nebraska Home, W. J. Bryan has rented his home in Lincoln, Neb., for the winter, and ho and his family will spend the next three months in Texas and northern California.

Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 06c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 55c; butter, choice creamery, k5e to 27c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 5.c to 53c. Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs,

i $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; j wheat, No. 2, 09c to 70c; corn, No. 2 I mixed, 31c to 33e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c

to 2ic; rye, No. 2, 59c to 61c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, G9c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 2Sc; rye, 57c to 59c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, G7c to

I OSc; corn, No. 2 mixtd, 32c to 34c; oats,'

No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c; clover seed, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, 04c to 60c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 34c; oats,' No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1, 54c: to 56c; barley, No. 2. 43c to 45c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $S.25. Buffalo Cattle, good shipping steers,' $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, common to choice; $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth-j ers, $3.00 to $4.50; Iambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.25. New York Catt'e. $3.15 to $6.75; hogs,' $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. -j red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2; 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c butter, creamery, 23c to 27c; eggs, westem, 15c to 21c. 1

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has made his annual report for 1899. The

salient points in connection with each

bureau are briefly outlined as follows:

Weather Bureau The extension of the

weather bureau service around the Carib

beau Sea has been abundantly success

ful.

Division of Chemistry This division is becoming a necessity to every department

of the Government. An interesting in

quiry has been made into the change

which takes place in the composition of

grains grown repeatedly on the same soil

Division of Entomology Since Dr. Howard has shown owners of Smyrna fig trees on the Pacific coast how to get the fruit fertilized, there is good reason to

believe that in a few years we shall ob tain our fine figs from that locality.

Division of Botany The department is

gathering information regarding the life

history of the plants that supply com

merce with India rubber and guttapercha.

and should Congress be pleased to give direction, it will seek the plant zones in

our island possessions where these com modities may be produced.

Biological Survey Plants and animals thrive and produce best where they are most at home. The biological survey is

endeavoring to find the most congenial

conditions for our plants and animals.

Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology The hybridizing of grains is being conducted by the division of vege

table physiology and pathology with a

view to securing varieties (rust-resisting,

drought-resisting and cold-resisting) bet

ter suited to our varied soils and cli mates.

Division of Pomology This division continues to experiment in many localities throughout the country with fruit-

bearing trees, plants and vines. For ex

ample, 119 varieties of the finer table grapes of Europe have been grafted on Phylloxera-resistant American stocks and

sent to North Carolina and Florida.

Division of Forestry The division of forestry is introducing practical and pay

ing forestry on a large scale among lum

bermen and extensive experimentation in tree planting is being conducted with co

operation on the part of those interested in woodcraft in several States.

Division of Soils The irrigation farm

er of the West is being helped by the

mapping and extending investigation of alkali soils and by the reclamation of in

jured or abandoned land, many acres of

which have become sterile throught the

injudicious use of water.

Division of Agrostology Cropping re

duces the organic material in the soil. Long-continued cropping renders the soil unproductive. Grasses and legumes are the best agencies for restoring this organic matter. The division of agrostology is experimenting with home and for

eign grasses and legumes.

Office of Experiment Stations Co-op

eration between the department and the

experiment stations becomes closer every

year. Assistance from tne "Mates is increasing and the farmers of the several

States are appreciating their station work

more and more. Experimentation in;

Alaska has begun with congressional aid.

Office of Public Road Inquiries There

is great interest at the present time in. the public highways of the country. Ex

tensive experimentation is being conduct

ed by the department in co-operation witlj local authorities in building sample roadi

from the materials found in different localities, and in the laying of steel track,

Division of Publications During thq .-. 4-t n lit .

year uutf puDiications were issuea ana over 7,000,000 copies distributed among the people.

Section of Foreign Markets Shows

rapid growth of American commerce in all parts of the world. We continue tq

sell raw material to foreign countries

from which they manufacture high-selling articles.

Bureau of Animal Industry The work

of this bureau increases rapidly. Meat inspection was conducted last year at 138 abattoirs in forty-one cities. The ante-

mortem inspections were 53,223,176, while the number in 1S92 was 3,809,459, The third year of experimentation with hog cholera shows that from 75 to 80 per cent of hogs injected with serum are saved. Division of Statistics Fifty thousand crop reporters keep the division of statis-i tics informed regarding the condition o$ our staple crops and every effort is being made to promptly give the people the facts as they are found. Gardens and Grounds The grounds of the department and its extensive green

houses serve a useful purpose, more than 100,000 plants and bulbs, all of economic value, having been distributed during the year by the superintendent. The Secretary then reviews in some detail the work of the several bureaus, divisions and offices of the department. He lays stress on the great services rendered by the weather bureau to commerce and agriculture and by the bureau of animal industry to the stock growers of the country. He makes a strong plea for the wide extensions of the forestry work, for which he urges greatly increased appropriations. He dwells at some length on the losses due to the injudicious use of water in alkali lauds of the irrigated regions aud pleads for a special appropriation of $10,000 for the investigation of the subject. Much work has also been undertaken on behalf of tobacco, looking to as wide a substitution as possible of home grown for imported product, by improving the qualitv of the former.

I E R C E gridiron struggles marked the Thanksgiving day football games. Wisconsin and Chicago, the two reconciled enemies, demonstrated their right to stand apart as the leading teams of the middle West. And they won by almost identical scores. The Badgers feasted off

Michigan 17 to 5 in their first encounter since 1893, while the Maroons served up a menu of 17 to 6 for the Brown University boys, whom they had never met beforo on the gridiron. Elsewhere the leading football games were marked by surprisingly one-sided scores. Pennsylvania, Carlisle, Iowa and California all got their opponents on the run and heaped up large scores. The Quakers by their 29 to 0 victory over Cornell calmed any exuberance the Ithacans may retain over he Princeton victory, and Columbia's defeat of Yale. too.

looks hardly significant in view of the trouncing by the Indians. Iowa walked over Illinois easily and, except for its

territorial remoteness, seems fit to be classed along with the championship aspirants of this section.

California increased its newly acquired

superiority over its Pacific coast rival, Stanford. Another championship was muddled by the victory of Indiana over

Purdue, which had tied with Notre Dame, which had downed the State University. The Indiana leadership is left in doubt. Beloit and Notre Dame met Surprises. The P. & S. team, which has been under cover since its meeting with Chicago early in the season, took the game from Notre Dame, while Knox could only emerge with a tie in its game with Beloit

The football season of 1899 ends with

out a champion. In the West as well as

in the East there is no team that can.

lay undisputed claims to the champion

ship. There are only two teams among

the "big ones" which have not been defeated, but complications are such that

Harvard in the East and Chicago in the West close the season undefeated. Harvard was tied and so was Chicago, but

nothing worse befell eitner. Princeton defeated the team that tied Harvard, but

he tigers themselves were beaten once

during the season.

DAWES TELLS OF BANKS.

Great Increase in Deposits During the

Fiscal Year. With respect to the condition of na

tional banks during the year, as shown by the five reports required from the banks, Comptroller Dawes in his annual report for the year ended Oct, 31, 1890, says:

"The number of banks in operation on

Sept. 7, 1899, was 3,595, with a paid in

capital of $605,772,970. The individual

deposits on that date amounted to $2,450,725,595.31, and the aggregate re

sources to $4,650,355,133.44. A compari

son of the Sept. 7 returns with those

made on Sept. 20, 1898, indicates an in

crease during the year in individual deposits of $419,271,055.02; in loans and

discounts of $340,789,623.20; in amounts due from other banks and bankers, $160,391,896.68; in specie, $44,697,225.44, and In aggregate resources, $646,844,088.57. On Sept. 7 the net deposit liabilities of the national banks of the country aggre

gated $3,031,463,016.68, on which a reserve of $890,568,825.90, or 29.38 per cent, was held. The composition of this reserve was as follows: Specie, $338,571,-

383.83; legal tenders and United States certificates of deposit for legal tenders.

$127,754,651; due from reserve agents, $414,126,660.44; redemption fund with the treasurer of the United States, $10,-

116,130.63." In recommending to Congress improvements in banking laws as directed by section 333 of the Revised Statutes, the Comptroller before making his chief and new recommendation for a bond-secured elastic circulation, repeats his recommendation of one year ago for a law providing for an unsecured emergency circulation to lessen the destructive power of financial panics, and taxed so heavily that under normal conditions it must be retired and can neither provide profits for the banks nor serve as a basis for the expansion of commercial credits. The Comptroller believes that, in accordance with the President's recommendation, national banks should be allowed to issue circulation to the par of the United States bonds deposited by

them for circulation, and that, in connection with the law authorizing this, provision can be made for a secured emergency circulation. Among other recommendations, the Comptroller strongly urges laws uuthorizing the incorporation of banks for the purpose of carrying on international and intercolonial banking as distinguished from domestic banking. He also recommends laws authorizing the establishment in small communities of national banks with a capital of $25,000. He repeats his recommendation of one year ago relative to a modification of the law restricting loans to any one individual to 10 per cent of the capital of a national bank, and advises the attaching of a penalty for making excessive loans after the present section is modified.

Sparks from the Wires. New York Stock Exchange will erect a seventeen-story building to cost $3,000,000. Emma Meyers, colored, was killed by Mrs. Mauley, another negress, in New York. Martin Horenski, Cleveland, Ohio, took on too much liquor and killed Martin Maleski.