Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 January 1893 — Page 1

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126 West Main Street.

Beautiful Line of

Cut Glass, Art Pottery,

And Novelties in SILVERWEAR. My line of

prettiest you ever

They Were Administered to Homestead Workmen.

LABOR LEADERS PLACED ON TRIAL.

It la HKld That the .stomach, of Several Victim* .Show I'OHitlvc l.vldfncr ot |£, Arsanleal rolsonlnK—Snuin ot 111* Testimony.

DEMI-SKY'S TKIAI. I1KOINS. PlTTKiiUKGH. Ha., Jan. 13.—The trial of Ungh Dempsey. district master workman of the Knights of Labor, J. M. Davidson and Kobert Beatty, charged with poisoning non-uniou workmen in the homestead steel null during last August, began here Thursday in a crowded courtroom. Beatty is accused of having arranged with Davidson and other cooks at the mill-to administer the poisou which, it Is alleged, Dempsey furnished. The charge of having procured and disbursed the money used in the furtherance of the scheme is also put upon Dempsey.

Origin of (lie Cases.

The cases grew out of the numerous cases of illness among the workmen in the Homestead mill. At first, those stricken with the sickness showed all the symptoms of typhoid fever and were treated that disease. few days, the typhoid character' istics disappeared and the doctors were unable to diagnose the cases other thon "poisoning from impure drinking water." Numbers of the sick workmen were brought to Pittsburgh hospitals, where they were treated by prominent physicians of this city, yet six of the men suffering from the unexplained disease died and all the other cases recovery was very slow. The Carnegie Steel company put their detectives at work to sift the matter to the bottom. The result of the detectives' work was the unearthing of an alleged plot to poison the non-union men. The indictment under which Beatty is being tried charges that Beatty administered deadly poison to W. E. Griffiths, an employe of the Homestead mill, his purpose being to murder Griftiths. The murder of 'Charles Olosser is also included.

A 8«nsr.tlon l.ooked Tor.

The trial itself, so far as it went for the day, did not reveal much if anything not already known to the public. But that there is a •urge-sized surprise in the background the counsel for the prosecution and a half dczeu doctors and expert chemists know. It was thought that the witness through whom this mine is *-o be exploded would be on the stand, but this feature wusfinallv postponed until to-day. This witness is no other than Capt. Hunt, the well-known analytical chemist. He has been engaged for some time, at the instance of the prosecution,in searching for poisons in the remains of several Homestead workmen who had died under suspicious circumstances since last summer, of course he refused to reveal anything as to the results of his examination, but it was learned from an authoritative source that arsenic in considerable quantities was found in one stomach at least, traces of croton ott in another and traces of arsenic and

STICK PINS and SCARF PINS are the

saw. CALL AND SEE THEM.

M. C. KLINE,

Jeweler and Optician,

Main Street. Opposite Court House.

jSl.

Barber Slio-p?

Weather Report.

KINDLY THANKING^.our friends for

their Liberal Patronage, we wish to

say that we shall try more than ever

to give you the best of everything

that pertains to our business.

MCCALIP & ARMSTRONG.

Cranberries, Celery, New Figs,

Fresh Cooking and Eating Apples,

Dates, Raisins. Prunes, Apricots, Nectarines.

CASH FRY, the Grocer.

The Crawfordsville Transfer Line,

DEADLY DOSES.

WAIiKUP & McD AKLAND, Proprietors.

Passengers and Baggage transferred to hotels, depots any part of the city,

OMNIBUSES, CABS AND HACKS.

Leave orders at the stables on Market street, Telephone No. 4',

or

other mineral poisons in other bodies exhumed. Positive Arsenic Was Administered.

The evidence of Dr. Cooper was pretty positive as to the poisoning by arsenic of one of the men who worked at Homestead. Dr. Cooper said after he left the stand that he had no doubt at all that the man Spayde, whom he had treated, had been dosed with arsenic. "Tlien it didn't surprise you, doctor, to learn that arsenic had been found in the bodies of Homestead men?'' was asked. "No," was Dr. Cooper's reply "of course they found arsenic and other poisons, too. The poisons seeui to have been changed from time to time. If bpavde had died I should hove had a post mortem held most surely, and I don't doubt that arsenic would have been found in him, as it has been in the lean fortunate men who died."

Some of the Kvldence.

Louis Wolfe. .lr., steward in charge of the Carnegie cook houses and restaurants at Homestead, testified that lie had lil cooks and waiters under him and that Patrick Gallagher was employed as night cook at No. house. Ho was taken sick three or four times with bad diarrhea, and has had .stomach trouble ever since.

Thomas Made, and A. M. Mack, of Baltimore, who had worked at Homestead, were the next witnesses. They had been attacked with the mysterious epidemfc. Dr. Cooper, of ISaltiinore,

by the physicians for testified that he attended the men, and But after the tir*t that they had every symptom of arsenical poisoning.

No chemical analysis was made as he was certain the men were suffering from polsou. Upon cross-examination, he said the same condition could be produced by salts of copper forming in copper vessels in which victuals wore allowed to stand.

lturo«d to the Ground.

GARDNER, Mass., Jan. 13. —Gushing academy at Asliburnhnm, a noted educational institution uud preparatory school, was burned to the ground. Loss on building, 8110,000: insurance, JWO.OOO on contents. SS0.000 insurance, 840,000. The institution has a fund of $100,000, and a new building wul be at once erected. The 'Jifl students escaped without injury.

To Succeed Lord Stanley.

OTTAWA. Out, Jan. 18.—Private advicesfrom London say that bir Gernet Wolseley, commander of the forces in Ireland, will succeed Lord .Stanley in May next as governor general of Canada. (•rain lllorkade at St. I.outs.

J5r. L'IVIH, Jan. 13.—The grain blockade continues as bad as ever. The elevators are full to the roof and it is estimated that 1.S00 car loads of grain are blockuded in the railroad yards.

Depew Is Out.

Nicw

YORK, Jan. 1 .. —The annual

election of the Union League club, which occurred Mondav evening, was a very quiet affair. There was only one ticket in the field. The newlyelected officers are: President, Horace Porter vice presidents, Wlutelaw Reui, William H. Webb, Eliliu Root, Albert H. Brown secretary. John Van Woriner treasurer, George Montague. When the result had been announced Chauncey M. Depew, who had been president of the club for seven consecutive years, delivered an interesting valedictory.

A SAD SESSION.

The

Senate Chamber Deoked the Trappings of Woe.

!n

SERVICES OVER KENNA'S REMAINS.

Alflliop Kenne Delivers the Funeral Sermon—Gen. liutler's Kody T»k*n •..to Lowell for Hurlsil ou

Monday Next.

l.VINO IS STA'l r.

WASIUMITON, .Tan. IS.—Both houses of congress left work Thursday to take part in the funeral of [Senator lvenna. Funeral services were held in the senate chaniiH'i". Tin* body of the dead senator was carried into the senate wing of the capitol and laid in state in the marble-room under a guard of capitol police. The casket was not opened. It was covered with black cloth and a simple silver, plate bore this inscription:

John lulunr.l Kcnnn. horn April 111, 1948, (lied .January II.

Serne In the Seuule.

In the senate, where the funeral was to take place, the galleries began to crowd up half an hour before noon. There was a good attendance in the diplomatic gallery. Mrs. Morton was present, and many friends of the dead who had come from his state. A bier had been placed at ths head of the main aisle. Soon the members of the lower house entered the chamber, led by Speaker Crisp, who took a place beside the vice president The president, his cabinet, the supreme court justices and the widow came next. They were followed by a procession of robed priests preceded by acolytes bearing censor and candles Capitol police bore in the casket, and Bishop ICeane, of tlie Roman Catholic university, in purple robes, with the priests ranged abou. the coffin. The bishop preached the funeral .sermon.

The body of the dead senator was taken from the east front of the senate, deposited in the hearse and carried to the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad station, preceded bv the congressional committee and the committee appointed by the legislature of West Virginia, which had, out of respect to the memory of its senator, adjourned until after the funeral. '1 he members of the family did not go to the station, but repaired at once to the family residence. Owing to illness Senator fciquire was not one of the committee aud his place was filled by .Senator Dolpli. The bodv was placet! in the baggage car of the special tram, where it remained until the departure of the funeral party. tct«raus Want to Attend.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Grand army posts from manv parts of the country have telegraphed lien, liutler relatives here asking that the funeral of the general be delayed so that tliev can reach Lowell time to participate. For this reason it has been determined that the funeral at Lowell shall not take place until next Mondavi

Oil for the Tomb.

After brief religions services at the house the train bearing the body of Gen. Butler left Washington at 8:15 o'clock Thursday afternoon for Lowell It is expected to arrive at its destination early this forenoon. The interment will be in the fainilv cemetery in Lowell. A delegation from Gen. II. F. Butler post No. 42, G. A. R., of Lowell, arrived Thursday morning to accompany the remains of their old command er to their last resting place. Besides Paul Butler, the general's only sou, and Miss Charlotte B. Evans, of Nottingham, N. H., his niece, the -funeral party consisted of Gen. Barrett, the general's law partner in Washington, and a number of his nearest friends. The remains were escorted to the station by local posts of the G. A. 11. President Harrison paid a visit to the Butler house Thursday afternoon and viewed the remains of the dead general. ills fepiiuph.

In a speech in Lowell January 29, 18',10, Gen. Butler said: "When you bear me to that inclosure on the other side of the river which I hope for as inv last resting place I prav you to put over me for iny epitaph: 'Ilerc lies the general who saved the lives of his soldiers at Big Bethel and Fort Fisher and never commanded the army of the Potomac.' 1 ask, he said, for nothing else."

His Wealth.

Gen. Butler's wealth is estimated at 57.000,000. He owned $500,000 of real estate in Washington and as much more in Lowell. He held a large share of tho stock of the American Bunting company of Lowell. Among his western investment were the Craig ranch of 100,000 acres in Colorado, threefourths of the Mora grant of 600.000 acres in New Mexico and large holdings in the !san Miguel Consolidated Gold Placer Mining company.

WORSE AGAIN.

Mr. Illittue Buffers Another Kelapse and Ills rhysleians Fear Another Crlitli. WASHINGTON, Jan. IS.—Mr. Blaine has suffered another relapse and his physicians again fear that a crisis the case is approaching, and only the most skillful and prompt attention on their part will ward off dangerous consequences.

It is understood that the doctors have had again to resort to the administration o. mtro-glycerine to stimulate the heart's action, and the fact that shortly after midnight bright lights were burning in the room connecting with the sick chamber seemed to mdicata that apprehension of further complications was not by any means fully allayed.

Awful

LOM

of Life tn Japan.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.—A spinning mill at Osaka, Japan, was burned December 20, with a loss of 125 lives. Most of the victims were young girls. Two hundred and seventy houses in the vicinity of the mill caught fire from sparks and were destroyed. Tlie fire, was caused by the breaking of one of the belts, which, getting between tho machinery, was ignited by friction and get fire to oil and waste near by.

VOL. VII-NO. 99. 0RAWFORDSYILLE,INDIANA, FRIDAY JANUARY 13.1893. PRICE 2 CENTS

BOATS FAST IN THE ICE.

New York .Suffering Seriously from Extremely Cold Weill her The Winter Klrtewhere.

NKW YORK,Jan.13.—It has beeu many years since the harbor and rivers of this city have been so thoroughly blockaded by ice as at present, and instead of improving the situation is steadily growing worse. So dense and compact is the mountain of ice wedged in the narrows by the ebb tide that no boats have dared to force the passage there, and even the most powerful ocean liner would long hesitate before trying to push her way through the ice barrier. Long Island and New Jersey patrons of the various ferries have been delayed and harassed, but Staten Island is in worse shape. Every boat on that lino was frozen in Thursday morning, but some of them were freed during the day. Hundreds of tons of freight of every description is blockaded on the wharves and lighters.

CAMDE.V, N. .T., Jan. 13. —The Delaware river is frozen over solid from Cooper's point to this city. A number of freight floats arc fast in the ice. There are 150 loaded freight cars bound for Philadelphia stalled at this place, being unable to get across the river.

NAjmxKKT, Mass., Jan. 13. —Nantucket is shut off from the outside world by an ice blockade. The last two days a cold snap has closed up both harbor and bay. The ice extends out 6 miles beyond the breakwater.

OTTAWA, ONT., Jan. 13.—The cold weather in this section is unabated in intensity. At Mattawh Thursday morning the thermometer registered 39 below zero at Pembroke, 40 below: at Ironside, 82 below at Maniwaki, 34 below at Kazu'aagua, 35 below, and at North Wakefield, 34 below.

Niagara falls presents a beautiful sight. A complete ice bridge covers what is known as the "Hig Kettle," extending from a distance of about 100 feet below the suspension bridge to within 50 feet of the foot of the falls. The bridge is composed of frozen foaiu, heaped to a height of 0 or 8 feet, and is frozen so solid that a number of persons have crossed it. This is the first time in 100 years that these boiling waters have frozen over.

KANSAR CITY, MO., Jan. 13 —At 10 o'clock Thursday night the temperature was 20 below zero and still falling.

LOUISVII.LK. Ky., Jan. 1 —'Ihe river is frozen solid from the Jeffersonville bridge to Twelve Mile island and men and boys have been walking across allday. Below, heavy gorges have formed at Alton. Wolf Creek. Leavenworth. Brandonburg and halt River.

CYCLING'S NEW FIELD.

It IK Allied to JlUHebMll-A National OrConization Kstahlishod In Philadelphia Whose Purpose Is to f«lve Ilegulur lilevelo Meeting* with

CIIHII

Prize*.

Pim.ADKMMiiA. Jan. 1 .—The .National Cvcle Association of America was formed here Thursday night. Charles II. ltvrne. of Urooklvn. was chosen temporary president George W agner. of Washington, treasurer, and E.A.Kagan, of Philadelphia, secretary. '1 he committee on constitution and bv-laws appointed was A. Abcll. chairman C. Von der Abe, A. C. Ruekenberger. E. B. Talcott and James irankhn. he association adjourned to meet in Xew York early in March at the call of the com mittee.

Manv prominent baseball men attending the meeting. Ihe circuit is the same as that of the National baseball league, with the exception of Ruffalo. being in the place of Cleveland. While the ofhcial announcement of the organization in no way connects this new association and the twelve-club league, all know that they arc most closelv identified. 1 he men in each bodv are the same, and the meetings will take place on the various ball grounds. The season will last twenty-six weeks. '1 here will be two meetings each week. kaeh city will have at least two meetings of two or three daj's duration during the season, hach day of a meeting there will be three races—novice, handicap and free-for-all events. The cash dispensed in prizes will amount to SI.500 for each meeting, guaranteed by the ball club on whose grounds the meeting is being held. At the end of every season there will be an international meeting held under the auspices of this association, at which large purses will be given, the money being raised from a fund formed bv the payment during tV.e season into the treasury of the association of a certain percefttage from the gate receipts of the various meet ings. I he local and schedule race meets may be held on Sundays wherever local laws and customs permit. Races mav also he held at night by electric light.

Dead with the Turned (hi. MINNEAPOLIS,Minn.. Jan. \&.—shortly aftcrt) a. in. '1 hursday one of the bellbo3'S of Warwick hotel discovered gas issuing from a room. Inside a man was found stretched on the bed with all his clothes on. The gas was turned on full. The register cives his name as "John Cullev, Campbell. He appeared to be a well-to-do business man, and it is thought he retired under the influence of liquor.

onvicted of Manftlmigtiter.

NKW YOKK. Jan. 13.—Frederick 1'I pining, the 32-vear-old son of the late May Agnes Fleming, the s'.ory writer, has been convicted of manslaughter in the second degree in Brooklyn for killing Michael Taylor in fight in a Hiroop avenue saloon on .mlv 10. The men had quarreled.

I.'iark Nominated In Monfnmi. riKi.KNA. Mont.., Jan. 13.—In the democratic senatorial caucus Th irsdav night (lark was nominated, getting twentv-seven votes. The eight Dixon men were absent. What will occur to-day in joint session is a problem.

MetliodUt Cnureh Destroyed. Ivoxo BRANCH, N. J., Jan. 13.—St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church was burned at 8 a. m. Loss, 500,000 insurance half.

HUME NEWS.

Brief Telegraphic Dispatches from Towns in Indiana.

The (Strike of l.ilko Kric Switchmen.

..Ir.NCIK, Ind, Jan. 8.--The strike of the Lake Erie fe Western switchmen in this city is still on and there are strong evidences in favor of the switchmen winning. Thursday they held a meeting and agreed to return at wages of S2.40 and

S'i.iiO

per day. This is 10 cents lower than the first demand. The company offered a raise of 15 cents to the switchmen, but uonc to the foreman. That would give the men 15 and S2.25 per day. The usual bulletin was posted informing the men that they would be discharged if they did not return to work, but nolle went to work. The yards are blockaded with freight, which is badly wanted at the I seventeen big manufacturing industries on the Lake Erie tracks that can

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only lie reached by this company. If the trouble is not settled soon a large number of the iron and glass industries will have to close down and thousands of hands will be. thrown out of work. The company says it will fill the strikers' places today, and if so trouble of a serious nature mac ensue.

Kit her ICpllepfty or Murder,^ INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Jan. i:c—(leorge Roberts, a carpenter, was found dead at his house on (Greenwood street under peculiar circumstances Thursday morn-j

ing. Dr. Dunlavy was sent for, and oceun by a when he arrived, a few minutes later, he found Roberts lying on the floor dead. There was a small cut over his right eye and a depression ou tho top of his head, as if caused by some blunt instrument. Mrs. Roberts told the doctor that her husband, who was subject to epilepsy, had slept on a lounge Wednesday night aud that shortly before o'clock he had called her to get up. While she was getting breakfast she heard a scuttling sound in the other room, and upon going in found her husband eonvulsions. He was breathing heavily and Mrs. Roberts became alarmed and sunt for a physician, but her husband died before lie arrived.

Mrs. Roberts said that she threw a block of wood at her husband Wednesday. but it did not bit him where the fracture in his skull was found.-.

The Siute I.onUhiture.

INIIANAI'oi.is. Ind.. Jan. 13.—In the house vesterdav a resolution was introduced by Mr. Mclntyre (of Floyd) to cut the twenty doorkeepers down to fifteen and the resolution was referred. Mr. Hrown (of Steuben) ntroduced a bill to amend the school law so a to provide for the furnishing of free, text bout. to poor children. Mr. nchnnek p»* sented a bill to authorize the organisation of metropolitan police in all cities of more than 20.000 inhabitants, and Mr. Haggard one to prevent the wreck-} ing of railroad trains and fixing death' as the penalt for the crime. The inspection of the Indiana world's fair building by the legislature isappoinled tuenuv for January :i0. It transpired tha*. Senator Royd's resolution to investigate the attorney ireneral's othee and mauea special order in the. senate for Mondav has in view the exposure of a scheme by which the state is said to have been robbed of nearly §*00,000.

^hiuhle Paper* Unlng.

IMJIAN ATOMS. Ind.. Jan. —*1 he disappearance of the papers in a case Judge Rartholomew coii' involving S10,000 lias created a commotion. In ISTo Charles Robbins, as administiator of the Cathcrwood estate, sold to the Johnsons a large block of stock in the street railway company at Ihirtv cents on the dollar, in lbski tne stock was worth par and suit was brought to recover the seventy cents, claiming that the sale of the slock had not been confirmed bv the court. 'J he original order for the sale was found among the papers tu the elerlfs othee. but it had not been entered of record. On this the court found for the company and the case went to the supreme court and '*'as reversed. Now when the case is cnuv.l nunc of the papers can be found.

Pat ton 1 untiel.

Cou Min s. Ind., Jan. 13.—r\ he condition of the Ratton tunnel on the Louisville, bvansville iV. St, Louis line, which caved in with such enormous loss last winter, is so critical as to attract the personal attention of the railway ofiieials. A telegraph ofhee has been established at the west end and a corps of carpenters will remain ou duty until after the present rush of freight trafbe. It is tlie ultimate purpose cither to blast the tunnel and make a "cut or else reconstruct it on tho most approved plans. or ltohbln|c Mull Jto*n*.

a

bible.

I IMI'OHIANT PItO.fh: I I M»KK WAV.

liv. da, open way between the ocean ami while the Krloeanul. with b'M six will constitute the only waterw

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INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., .Ian. 1 ».--Sheeny Armstrong, formerly of Louisville, who was convicted the federal court for robbing mail boxes throughout the country, was sentenced to three vears in the prison south. Judge Baker, in pronouncing sentence,! Speaking of the extent of in tenia said that owing to Armstrongs early ^lonu| improvements in this countr training and the fact that he was more

tool of the gang than anything else, I

he mndo the sentence as light as pos-J

Sad Story from hvaimvllle.

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1 i.—Neighbors Tuesday found Fred Keiper dead in his home and his wife helpless bed. Keiper was old and infirm and attacked with asthma fell out of bed and froze to deatli during the night, His wife was injured by a fall recently and could not help him or muse the neighbors.

I tvii \enr» for a .Murderer.

Four WAYNE Ind., Jan. Li.—At Albion Ihursdav morniug tlie jury in the case of Cieorge Shisley. on trial for the murder of Hugh Flatt. at Rome City last spring, found a verdict of guilty and sentenced the prisoner to two years in tho penitentiary. Piatt's murder was the outcome of a saloon fight.

Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report

j§agas®

ABSOLUTE!* PURE

FOR A SHIP l'\N.\L

A Convention in the Interest, of a Great Waterway.

PLAN TU UNIT!-* THE LAKHS AM) Sl.\.

It Is lleld In JIM liii^TON mill Neitily I*.vet*v Commercial Body In the Noi ih and Northtvesi I* Represented—

Object* til the 4s.«i herlng.

W ASIIINUTON. Jan. l:i The cotivcntion of representatives of commercial ..is. i-.i. .i......

bodies and lake interests of the country called by the Duluth chamber of commerce to organize a movement in support of the scheme gre it lakes and the ship canal through the territory of the I nited States assembled Thursday in the banquet hull of the Arlington hotel. It was called to mler by S. A. Thompson, secretary of the Duluth chamber of commerce. There, were between seventy-five and 100 gentlemen present, representing states and commercial bodies from those portions of thts country most deeply interested.

lo

unite the

TIM Ohjrei.

The call for the convention recites: •'It 1IH?» louu been reoofruiv.ert that it would btf for the ui'urttost nlvautiiK«'. eininwiviaUy, to lisivo 'Jeep water ship eanal ronn«'i'Uug the great lakes ami the Atlantic, and that rrom a military point of view it is of ihe almost importance that tills I'oaaeclioa should he matUi through Ameriouu territory, hut no decisive action looking to the construction of such canal has ever been uiUeii. Durimt the last year, however, public attention has beeu shurply drawn to the mutter by the controversy between tho governments of the United States and the Dominion of Canada over the discriminating tolls levied by the latter upon American commerce parsing through the Welland canal and the passage of tho so-called retaliation act imposing corresponding tolls I upon Canadian commerce lining the Suultcanal

Instead of receding from a ]Ksitinn which itt 1 manifestly in violation of treaty stipulation, the dominion government is hastening hy every inoati^ in its power th« enlargement of the St, 1 Lawrence canals and the construction of a

Canadian canalat thoSbuU. with the evident in tentiouof presently closing tlie Welland aud St Lawrence canals to American commerce either direeilv or by the imposition of prohibitive tolls. The people of the United S'atos are thui brought race to lace with tlie fact that withii yeais at most the nn'rehant ship* of ('ana .ind HritMi men-of war as weli, wlil have an

I

hen the proje •cuinents

the lake of wate be? wee the L'fei

lakes Erie and Ontario, or be'we"i akes and the sea. for both the. commer that nails beneath our flag."

Mttke-I »l the Atneniblv.

'The states, municipalities and mereial bodies represented gates arc as follows:

bv dele

California: Illinois La Salle, III olis hoard of trade: Iowa: Mtinchehuh Moston merchants* exchange trade. Detroit: St Louis merchants 1 Mexico LoeUpon, N". V.: New York of underwriters: association New

Indianap

t"r and Du hoard

exchange iiy board

N. Y.) business men city lumber trade

North Tonawanda iN. Y.) Huine«s Men's soemtion Albany N. Y. chamber of com mercc: Troy iN.Y.) Citizens' asociation S.vru cuse N. Y.j Business Men's association Cusenovja t.N. Y.), Oswego N. Y. boards trade New York Sta».« Farmers alliuucf North Carolina. Kaivo i'N. D.» board of trade Ohio: Cleveland, O.: Cleveland board trade: Washington il). boar of tiude Duluth chamber- of commerce St Patd i.Minu.) Commercial club: Mankat

Minn, board of trade Duluth board of trade Minnesota: Vermont: Pennsylvania: Pitt* burgh Pa chamber of commerce Wilkef barro iP board of irnde: Oklahoma: Wes Virginia West Superior: Sheboygan and Bay field. Wis New York city huiiduig 'e.xchai Lockport »N. Y.) Improvement asocial Ogdensbur :, N. Y.

Mn|. Ituhltrh) temporary (han-mari Maj. W. R. Italdwin. piv-ident of the Duluth chamber of commerce and gressman-elect. was made tempi chairman as a recognition of the services of the chamber in the preliininar work of the convention. Maj Raid win spoke briefly of the demands the people of the country tributary Duluth for a waterway from the lake to the sea. the construction of whic it is estimated will result tn an inoeas often cents a bushel in the value the producer of the products of the great region. the Oltieers. '1 hese oflicers were elected:

President, (ieorge H. Kly.of Ohio: vjee pre*: dents, C. W. Osgood, Vermont W. A. Swee New York: with one honorar\ vice preside)! froiu each state: secretary, s. A I horup^o MinneniH)!is.

Want* Houte Surveyed.

George H. Elv, of Cleveland, gave 1 historv of the movement in favor the proposed canal aud showing the necessity for it. For the present

Ely advised the convention to confine itself to a declaration in favor of I appropriation by congress tn make survey of the route for the canal.

Mr sai(1 an

that

impression

,,,-evaile

the ITnito.l Slates had expende

than any ot|1(M. A

matter of fact, he said, there had bee I expended all told by the national and state government* from ITsT to IMio the improvement of rivers, harbors and building of canals less than Vi..0,000, 000. Francc hud expended over S00 000.000 with nothing like the expect tion of permanent ocnefit promised the United States.

A committee on resolutions consist lug of one member from each organi tion was appointed and then letter were read from President-elect leve bind. Vice President Morton and Sen a..ii' McMillan, regretting their innbi Hv to be present at the meeting of th convention. 1 he secretary called tention to a large number of letter and resolutions in approval of the ob jeets of the convention coming from all parts of the country and indicating the national character of the suppor

received,

will

ecofci of the proc

These

nii-.de a part

tke

cd inirs.

Cl'ltNEXT KVKNTS.

Judd. »:f Tyrone, of a hired tramp.

Wealthy Farmer la., mourns ihe loss MMH) and a shotgun.

Roe Rrooks. a 10-year-old girl, of Memphis, was ehoked to death by a glass marble- Thursday.

Edward lice, of Deer Creek, 111., lost life in the blizzard Wednesday ight. Me was intoxicated. lames (iordon was killed by a falling ornice as he was about to enter aaloon at Menominee. Mich.. Tnursday.

Since the sparrow bounty law was passed the small boys of Winnebago, onnty. 111., have collected bounty on birds.

Arne Holm, a young farmer of the., town of lieloit. Wis., committed suicide by banging Thursday. No cause for the deed is known.

Undertaker Gross, of Hot sprinirv ha-s sued the Pacific Express eompanv for £282 charges ou a body which was stolen from the company otliee at Newark, Ark.

All but one of the ISO rare manuscripts presented to Knox library of New York by Ranker John »S. Kennedv have been pronounced forgeries by the British museum experts.

The Religious Eibertv association in state convention nt Minneapolis opposed enactments against, blasphemv. decried government chaplains, church

Xiunption

from taxation

and

hristiati nation

the use

of the Rible in the public schools:

de-

lared a perversion of the constitution" be supreme court decision,

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TURPIE RENOMINATED.

All ltut One (if the Democrat le I.eglHluini'H ol Indiana \ote for Hun. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Jan. Id. David I nrpie was on 'Ihursdav night renominated for nited States senator by the democratic maioritv the Indiana legislature. Mr. Turpio was placed nomination bv Senator Kern, of Marion, and tne nomination was seconded bv manv senators ami representatives. Representative Hord. of Marion, placed in nomination John fFilbert Shanklin. of Evansville. Senator Ivern said that he was authorized to protest against the presentation of the name of Mr. Shank* in. who. he said, desired to sec Senator Turpie reelected. Mr. Hord was the onlv member who voted, for Mr. Shanklin. The vote stood NT for Turpie and 1 for Shanklin. Senator Turpie addressed the caucus after he had been nominated.

Ihe caucus passed a resolu1 ion commending Ira J. Chase, the late republican governor, for the fearless stand he took in his message, to the legislature in indorsing the conduct of state affairs by the democrats.

I.nuk'r lor Senator.

ST PAri.. Mum.. Jan |:V—J he democrats of the Minnesota legislature in caucus Thursday evening nominated Daniel W. Lawlcr, late candidate for governor, for Lnited states senator.

THE MARKETS.

(•ruin, Provision1*. 1.tr. rim A O. .Jan. VI Firm. Spring wheat patents, Odtffc .VJ Winter wheat. paientH. straights, -Ituled active and higher. Cash No.

FLOPH

4.10: Rye. OOJfca 80 WHKAT

a, 7:ui®74»ic oKN Was

May. WifcBtc. moderately active ami lower.

No. 2 and No. 2 \ellow. 4 P.«g&4:.'>4c: No. and No. 3 \ellow. .»0c Januurv. Fehrunrv. 4.»@4 Pj,c: Mav. 4»v£47 47!4©47Sc and 4TA,c.

July,

OATS F.as.er, with fnlr trading. No. 1 cash,

31 VftKc: January, :n\^'»lc May. 35V#, Samples iu fair supply and steady. No. 3, NO. 3 White, ttSftSoe. and steadv No- 3. 2i.Kft3.rto: No White. 3.V

Hte—L^sr demand and fecluip easier. Mav delivery, Cash Hye. MHfc for No. •ample lot* 57®ft9c for No. 2, and 48^Cr»*,V for No. 3.

IIAfiLPY—Quiet good (c choice prudes Hrm. common ensv. Oood to choice. 4fttf,*ic: fancy, WifttMc: fair hut stained, 40®43c: and low prades.

33®:»»c Mr.ss POHK—-In active reijuest and lower. Quotations ranged at 17.50& 17.76 tor old and flft.i&ftlft.M)

for new cash: ftfi.Wi for Jan-

usrv. and l1h.ftO0IH.H7 for Mav. LAUD—Offerings fair and inquiry moderately active. Prices ruled unsettled. Quotations ranged at fl0.totfM0.70 for cash: 110.67^^10.70 for January, and H0.45&10.57'> for May.

HUTTF.r—Creamery. 20^H-Jc Dairv. L'K&yHc: Packing Stock, I4(ftlfic. OIT.*-~\\ iKconsin Prime W hue. 7

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of 11.30 per gal. for finished poods.

c: Water

White. 7«^c: Michigan Prime White, Water W hite, 9c Indiana Prime White, h'jc: Water White. 9c Headlight, K5 test, S4c: Gasoline. 87 rteg 12c 74deg H. 8c: Naphtha. deg's, 6l/ic.

LlQPOUS -Distilled Spirits steadv

oo

the basis

NKW YORK, Jan. 12.

WHKAT -NO. red. fairly active May. ffcWc. CortN—No, 2. dull. Februry. M\'e: May, 6'J^c, No. 2. 50\'c652 ic.

OATS—No dull, easier. Mav. 9-16c: western. 37$fc4fl'»c.

PMOVISIONS—Beef—In demand, strong ]•,*• tra mess. [email protected]. Pork—Quiet, easy. New mess, fts.50ftl8.75 old mess. J!7.r0ftls 75. Lard

Quiet, nominal, 110.85 bid.

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CI.EVKI.AND. O.. Jan lu. asy. Standard White, no 6'ic 86 p'« «iiner. H.H- &

PRKTOLKUM—!• 5®,c 74 gasoline, naphtha, A'ic,

l.ive St or l. lUCAi.o. Jan. 12.

CATTTK Market active. Quotations ranged' at I5.30&6.00 for choice to extra Ship ping Steers: f4.75ft5.25 for good to choice do 00 for fair to good 9-3.25ft3.75 for common to medium do.: W.00ft I.7» for butchers Steers fU.OOfJ2.75 for Stockers: ^2.50^,3.25 for Texas Steers: l2.80ft.V-2.- for Feeders: 11 JoTf J. for Cows: I1.50ft2.70 for Bulls, and 3,5006.50 for Veal Calves.

Hons—Mantel active and feeling firm. Prices 5ft10c higher. Sales ranged ut 50.30f(7.3Q for Pigs: I7.'25ft7.60 for light l7..T0ft7.50 for rough packing: I7.40ft7.75 for mixed and r»5y,7 forbeavv packing and shipping IOIJS.

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