Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — Page 2

tl|tl)tmocratitsentiHCl J. w. McEWEJt, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - • INDIANA

MERCHANTS IN A RUSH

GREAT ACTIVITY IN CHICAGO ' WHOLESALE CIRCLES. Dry Good, Clothing, Hardware and Boots and Shoes in Demand—Clemency at London for Mrs. Castle— West Virginia Town Wiped Out. Trade Awakens. Out-of-town merchants were in Chicago Tuesday to take part in the big meeting of their association, and they kept Secretary C. S. Tomlinson of the National Association of Merchants and Travelers and a representative, from both the Central and the Western Passenger Associations busy taking care of their transportation wants, so that they can devote all their time to finishing up fall buying before the opening of the session at 4:20. Among the wholesale houses the effect of such a large number of out-of-town buyers was plainly visible. In many of the most important branches the forces of salesmen had more than their hands full with the crowds of hurrying purchaser:. This was particularly true of dry g aids, boots and shoes, and the dealers in holiday goods. Clothing merchants als.. enjoyed a better business than they had seen in over a year, and the number of hardware dealers present bore testimony to the fact that Chicago’s popularity as a hardware jobbing center is rapidly increasing. The special rates given by the railroads have proved so profitable to them that liues which do not usually count on much merchandise business out of Chicago show a disposition to make a trial of the matter. INSURANCE IN GERMANY, Wonderful Increase in the Business During the Last Year. A special report to the State Department from United States Consul Monogluin at Chemnitz shows that the German insurance companies have wonderfully increased their business dnr-ng the last year, though how much of this increase is to bo attributed to the fact that certain of the most energetic anil enterprising insurance companies bare been forced to leave the country can oniy be conjectured. Last year the number of persons insured increased 124,725, representing an insurance of $119,000,00'). This is largely attributed to hard work on the part of the companies, although they are favored by the Government in exemption from taxation on premiums to a certain extent, and it has been suggested that the insurance business lias now reached its highest point, am! that danger lurks in the possibility of a prospective decrease in the number of those insured.

FIRE CAUSES HAVOC. Toirn of Bpencer, W. Va., Almost Destroyed by a Conflagration. The town of Spencer, W. Va.. was almost destroyed by fire Sunday night. Thirty-nine stores and houses were burned. The fire started in a room over Simmon & Co.’s general store and swept along the main business street, leaving destruction in its path. The people were terror stricken and thrown into a panic. The fire started at 11:04 o’clock Sunday night and burned until late Monday morning. The total loss is estimated a; S2OO,(KM). The asylum building, being across the creek from Spencer, was out of danger, but the fire could, easily be seen by the inmates, anil the attendants had their hands full in handling the patients. who were greatly frightened and terror stricken. Mrs, Castle Is Free. At London, the Home Secretary signed Monday night an ’order for the release from Wormwood Scrubs prison of Mrs. Castle, the wealthy American woman convicted of shoplifting. Her husband will go with her to America as soon as she is able to travel. The pressure brought to bear upon the Government to secure Mrs. Castle’s release has been of astonishing weight and influence. Both home and foreign offices received scores of messages daily from England and. the United States beseeching immediate action. Popular sympathy in England is entirely in her favor, and there were no criticisms when her release was announced. Pleaded for Her Assailant. William Bean, the negro who beat Mrs. L. C. Clark at Lebanon, Ivy , was captured and put in jail. A mob took him from the Sheriff and carried him before Mrs. Clark, who identified him. She is expected to die, but she pleaded with the crowd to let the law take its course. Negroes as well as whites threaten to lynch Bean if Mrs. Clark dies. f^r* Big Sujjor Crop. v Consul Muth. of Magdeburg, reports to the State Department an abnormal German sugar beet crop, almost equaling the unprecedented yield qf 1894. In Austria and France, as well as other European countries, the crop exceeds that of last year, though in some districts the quality is inferior.

Italy Inundated. Venice is the scene of an inundation such as has not been experience.] for ■eighteen years. Many of the quarters adjacent to the Grand canal have been submerged in consequence of abnormally . high tides. Argentine Is Hard Up. i It is believed that the answer of the Argentine Minister of Finance to the Senate’s inquiry as to the condition of the treasury will show a deficit of SS.000,000 in gold, or $82,000,000 in paper currency. Morris to Ferve Ten Years. George H. Morrison, recently treasurer of Rensselaer County, N. Y... pleaded guilty to two indictments, one charging felony and the other for misappropriating county funds. Morrison was immediately sentenced to Dannemora for ten years and five mouths. Battleship Texas Injured. , The United States battleship Texas. ,while lying at the Cob dock, Brooklyn wavy yard, had a thirteen-inch hole stove in her side, caused by the breaking of her weacock. f ' Kisses Are High in Alabama. . Miss Lizxie Hendricks, a Calhoun County, Ala., girl, was awarded $245 damages from the Southern Railway Company by the Circuit Court here for being kissed by one of the company’s conductors while en route recently from Some to Anniston. Large Gains in Gold Reported. The treasury at Washington Wednesday lost $47,000 in gold coin and $44,700 in jewelers’ bars. The net gain at Sew York, however, was $2,382,300. This leave* the reserve $117,587,898. Large gains in gold are indicated at Boston and other points, j ’ ■

MARKET VERY STRONG. Wheat Advanced Sharply Do to Great Milling Demand. The Liverpool wheat market did not change its price for futures at the opening Friday and was quoted YjA higher for No. 1 northern on the spot. Such an evidence of independent strength, following the display of weakness which the Chicago market gave Thursday, completely turned speculative sentiment in America to the bull side again, and started wheat once more on au upward course. As an additional incentive to resume the advance which was interrupted by the hurry to take profits Thursday, the Minneapolis and Duluth receipts were found to be very small; the number of carloads being 084, compared with 1,110 ears a week ago and 1,235 on the corresponding day of the year before. Besides that Chicago had only 97 carloads, against 394 on the similar_day of last year. Those fresh features of the market surroundings sufficed to start December wheat at 1c per bushel advance and to add another lc per bushel before an hour of the Chicago session had gone by. The opening was irregularly at from 75c to 75>4e. Before 10:30 o’clock it had sold at 70Vfec. A San Francisco message, which reported an additional four cargoes of wheat sold Thursday besides what was previously disposed of for shipment to Australia — the four cargoes amounting to about 350.000 bushels—was another of the bull points in the early news. The milling demand for carloads of wheat in the cash market was shown chiefly in the competition for good to choice samples of No. 3 hard Northern spring. A private cablegram from Liverpool indicated that there was knowledge there of some falling off in the volume of shipments from Russia and the Danubian countries. The St. Louis market was even stronger at the opening than Chicago.

MEANS TO CROSS TROCHA. Maceo Moves Out on the Plains for that Purpose. Advices from Cuba give plainer descriptions of the movements of insurgents than can lie sent by cable from the island. Antonio Maceo has moved to the plains country—that is to say, to the south coast of Pinar del Rio, with the intention of making an attempt to. pass the trocha, protected in the meantime as he hopes by insurgents at the rear of the trocha. He is at present supposed to be at Carojal.'in the direction of tho swamp of Majala. If he does not accept a battle he will be obliged to go further toward Dayanigucts or advance by Pueblo Ntievo, taking the road by Cavajnbos and thus get from La Gloria to La Sierra. It is thought probable that it will be difficult for him to pass by the south coast to the western portion of Pinar del Rio because Gen. Weyler has stationed 2,000 cavalry to prevent that movement near Candelaria. Capt. Gen. Weyler’s columns are fortifying the strategic positions taken from the insurgents in the mountains of Pinar del Uio so as to form a strong base of operations. When once these are finished Gen. Weyler calculates that ho will be able to dispose of 10,000 men in the pursuit of Maceo. and it is the general opinion that lie will be able to give him a decisive blow.

COAL IN CANADA. Giant Corporation Being Formed to Develop the Field. l our, months ago there was a discovery of coal in Algorua, western Ontario. The Lehigh Valley Railroad dispatched experts to the scene of the discovery with instructions to test the coal thoroughly, and if it was, in their opjnion, of the quality represented to at once buy up the surrounding country and secure an option on the district. But when the Lehigh 1 alley people had made up their minds to buy it they found Canadian capitalists had got in before them and had a claim on the property. The, Lehigh \ alley combine has not. given up hope of securing tile coal unifies. A proposition is now before the syndicate in which the combine offers to pay more than $1,000,000 if the present holders of the options will sell out to them the whole district which the syndicate has now secured. The advisability of accepting the offer is being considered. The syndicate would prefer to start a Canadian company with $1,000,000 capital stock. William AVilson, of Toronto, a representative of tho Canadian syndicate, has gone to New York to meet capitalists there who may offer more for the property than the Leliigh Valley. BLOODY BATTLE IN KENTUCKY. Six Negroes and Two Whites Shot in the Fracas. A bloody battle between negroes anil whites occurred at Winchester, Ivy. A. newsboy selling a Cincinnati paper was set upon by a negro, who tore up his papers. Police Officer Donohoe attempted to arrest the negro, who drew a pistol. Donohoe got a posse, and all the negroes in the suburb opened fire on them. A desperate battle took place in which six negroes were shot, four fatally. Two white men, John T. Jones Sr., the horseman and one of John Morgan’s old raiders, was shot In the hip. and Luck Anderson in the ankle. The negroes retreated outside the town to n field, where 200 of them defied arrest. Gov. Bradley was called ou for troops.

Boats in a Fatal Collision. The steamer Tiber, Captain de Lisle, bound for Sydney, came- into collision with the schooner Maggie, Captain Blunden, bound from Bona Vista Bay for St. John’s With a cargo of fish and lumber, at the entrance to the harbor at - St. John’s, N. F., Friday night. The schooner, carrying a crew of nine men and fourteen passengers, was struck amidships, cut in two pieces and sunk instantly. All aboard were on deck. They were thrown into the water and those saved were only rescued by the help of the floating deck load of lumber. Several were caught under the sails and dragged down with the sinking vessel. Others were unable to keep afloat until the boats arrived, and dropped off the planks. Two men climbed up the steamer's side and were saved by her boats. One woman was also saved, making ten who were rescued. The others, nine men and four women, were drowned. The pecuniary losses of the survivors were heavy. Captain Blunden owned SOO quintals of fish aboard, valued at SB,OOO. Several other men had their summer wages, S4OO apiece, with them, and two men had SI,OOO each, and were coming to St. John's to make purchases. All were more or less closely related. , The accident happened wifhin half a mile of the town. The steamer lay to while she sent a hoat ashore to land the survivors, and then continued her voyage. But In Great Peril by Robbers, Nathan Hunsicker, of Akron, Ohio, was awakened Thursday night by two masked men who attempted to force him to open his safe; Upon his refusal they bound him. and then drilling a hole in the safe, filled it with powder. Placing Ilunsieker against the door, they next threatened to blow the safe up with the proprietor in that position. Hunsicker weakened and opened the safe and the burglars got about S2OO. Threaten a Trust, Chicago has become such a thorn in the Kde of the great wire nail trust that its managers have openly declared they Mould like, to see it blotted off the map.

The miin reason for the trust's antipathy Is that one of the leading jobbing conconcerns persists in openly defying the trust's mandates. This defiance not only threatens to demoralize all of the other jobbing concerns in Chicago, but in other cities as well and actually threatens the existence of the trust itself. The firm in question openly quotes a price of $2.40 a keg on nails, as against $2.80 as the trust price, which other jobbers are forced to maintain. Meanwhile the high prices have tempted a large number of small manufacturers to enter the field and their aggregate production is gradually gaining on the demand. Another source of trouble is the recent actions began against the trust in the Federal courts. In a suit begun in the United States Court at Indinapolis C. Rramkamp, of Cincinnati, asks $300,000 damages, petitions that the trust’s contracts with outsiders be declared illegal and asks that the trust be dissolved. The.damages are asked because the trust stopped delivery of forty naihnaking machines which he had contracted of an Anderson (Ind.) manufacturer and because all other nail machine manufacturers were under contracts not to sell to outsiders.

> SIX SEAMEN PERISH., Schooner AY’ankesha anti Her Drunken Crew Go Down. Under cover of the darkness and in the midst of a fierce storm, six men met their death off Muskegon, Mich., harbor Saturday night from the three-tnast schooner Waukesha. The story of the only survivor lays the blame upon Captain Duncan Corbett. This survivor is Frank Dulach. He does not know the names of any of the other members of the crew, which consisted of the captain, mate, cook and four sailors, a total of seven. After being rescued Dulach was so weak that it was night before an intelligent story could be obtained from him. It was taken in the form of an affidavit before a magistrate. The story which Dulach tells is of a drunken captain and a wild debauch in the midst of a howling storm. Nothing in the history of navigation on the great lakes equals it. Even after the boat was going to pieces and the bloodsoaked form of one of the men had disappeared in tlie waves and the inky blackness of the night, while the survivors were clinging for life to a rude raft, Corbett continued his drinking and finally fell a besotted mnss into the waves. One by one the six of the seven men on the raft, the entire crew of the boat, fell off, until just as day broke Dulach saw the white surf boat of the Muskegon life saving station coming, with Captain Wood at the tiller. He feebly motioned them how to approach him, and was lifted into the boat.

MRS. W. H. VANDERBILT. Widow of the Famous Millionaire Dies of Heart Disease. Airs. Mary Louise Vanderbilt, widow of the late William H. Vanderbilt, died Friday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, at Scarboro, in Westchester County, N. \ r . Mrs. Vanderbilt had been visiting at the Shepard residence since the wedding of her granddaughter. Mrs. Vanderbilt was Miss Louise lvissam, daughter of a reformed church minister of Albany. She was married to William H. Vanderbilt in 1841, anil lias for years been noted for her deeds of charity. The .children of the marriage were Cornelius, William Kiss.nii, Frederick W., George W., Margaret Louisa, who became the wife of tho late Elliott F. Shepard; Emily Thorn, wife of William D. Sion no: Florence Adele, wife of 11. MoK. Twombley; and Eliza 0., wife of W. Seward Webb. Negroes Killed by White Cups. While Jeff Jackson, John Adams, William Taylor and Robert Allison, negro laborers, were working at a sugar cane mill near Wild Fork, Monroe County, Alabama, they were fired upon from the darkness by unknown persons. All but Taylor were instantly killed. He will die. It is supposed to have been done by a gang of white saps, who have been engaged in running all negroes out of that section. Tragedy in the Street. At Kansas City, Mo., Arthur L. Snook killed his wife, Arietta. The tragedy occurred at the Belmont Hotel. Snook sat down on the steps and watched his wife die, after which he placed the revolver to his heart and tired two shots. Jealousy was the cause;

Fnilnre of a Dayton House. The Manhattan Clothing aud Shoe Company of Dayton, Ohio, has assigned, with liabilities aggregating SIOO,OOO. This concern is owned by Gus Hanauer. and the difficulty does not affect the branch houses located in cities in the East and West. Cool Girl Filicide. At Jacksonville, Fla., Alias Fanny Viola Finnegan, of Spencer, Mass., shot herself and left instructions that she'was to be buried with the revolver in her hand anil in the dress she wore when she committed suicide. Her instructions were complied with. New Comet Is Seen. A telegram from Lick Observatory to Harvard Observatory announces the discovery of a faint comet by Perrine, an assistant at Lick.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.73; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn. No. 2,24 cto 25c; oats, No. to 19c; rye, No. 2,30 cto 38c“; butter, choice, creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom corn, common short to choice dwarf, $35 to SBO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattie, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 70e; corn, No. 2 white, 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c. St. l^oiiis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.i5; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 84c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 10c to 18c; rye, No. 2,33 c to 35c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.70; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,85 cto S7e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye. No, 2,35 eto 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 89c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e to 21c; rye. 37c to 38c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; earn, No. _2 mixed, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 38c; clover seed, $5.45 to $5.55. Milwaukee —Wheat,’No. 2 spring, 70c to 78c; corn, No. 2,24 cto 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; barley. No. 2,30 cto 30c, rye, No. 1,30 cto 38c; pork, mess, $0.75 to $7.25. Buffalo-Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs,' $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50wheat, No. 2 red. 92e to 93c; corn, No 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white 3"rc to 24c. 53 00 t 0 53.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3 75wheat, No. 2 red, S9e to 90c; corn, No. 2,’ 1 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24e-' butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs. Western, lac to 22c.

LOST IN A HEAVY SEA.

SIX MEN DROWN ATMUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. Schooner Waukesha Wrecked in the Storm—Only Snrvivor Tells a Story Blaming the Captain—Report of the Poatofflce Department. A Watery Grave. Under cover of the darkuess anil in the midst of a fierce storm, six men met their death off Muskegon. Mich., harbor Saturday night . from the three-mast schooner Waukesha. The story of the only survivor lays the blame upon the captain whose name is not definitely known. This survivor is Frank Dulach. He does not know the names of any of the other members of the crew, which consisted of the captain, mate, cook and four sailors, a total of seven. After being rescued Dnlach was so weak that it was night before an intelligent story could be obtained from him. It was taken in the form of an affidavit before a magistrate at the station iu order to show the full circumstances. Dulach says the boat loaded with salt at Ludiugton for South Chicago, and went out Friday about 4 p. m. Almost immediately she began to feel the heavy sea. and the minds of the sailors were not in tho least reassured by the fact that the captain commenced drinking liberally. When off Little Point the Waukesha '.vJh leaking so badly that all hands had to go to tin? pumps. After it was shown that pumping would be necessary all the time, the sailors begau to beg the captain to beach the boat, but he refused and kept on south. When they saw the piers at Muskegon about 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon they were in doubt as to where they were. The efiptain hoisted a signal for a tug, but, no tug coming, he went to anchor, angrily declining to make an attempt to enter the harbor, saying he did not know where he was and how much water there was. He said he would stay there during the night, fix up as best he could, and in the morn-, ing slip away. The men told him the boat, which was old and rotten, couiil not stand tlie strain nnd would go to pieces; that his only safety was to beach her. Dulach says the captain locked up the torches, so they could not signal, and when ho, Dulach, tried to flash a lantern the captain struck it down. About 9 o’clock the boat began to yield under the pounding of the constantly increasing sea, and the captain redoubled his drinking. In desperation Dulach and his “watch partner” tried to slip the vessel’s cables and send her ashore. They succeeded in loosing the big anchor, when the captain, hearing the noise, got life-preservers for himself, the mate and a snilor by the name of Fred, who, according to I)u----laeh's story, were all drunk on liquor he had furnished them. Tlie other four secured preservers from the forecastle, aud the entire crew went into the foremast rigging. Pulled down by the little anchor, which was dragging, the boat gave a great lurch, to port, and under the test, the three masts snapped one by one. The colored cook was killed by the fall of a yard and fell into the sea. The others climbed onto a rude raft, which Dulach and his partner constructed. A Swede, who was by Dulach, kept up the fight as long as he could, and the^ dropped off. The unite was washed away. Dulach and his partner supported this captain as long as they could, and finally, when he fell over helpless into the water, they had to leave him to his fate. Dniaeh kept up the courage of his partner ns long as he could, but just before dawn he, too, fell into the chilly water. When the lifeboat came in sight Dulach was just able to motion them where to come.

ANNUAL POSTOFFICE REPORT.

Facts and Figures of the Department for the Year Just Past. The annual report of Frank H. Jones, First Assistant Postmaster General, gives a review of a large part of the year's postal business of the Government and makes numerous recommendations for the improvement of the service. It shows that during the last three fiscal years the aggregate savings in the divisions of salaries and allowances of postmasters were $545,994; in free delivery, 82,314,415, and postoflice supplies, $218,540; total, $3,278,980). For that period there was an aggregate reduction of 3,030,134 in the number of pieees of mail sent from postoffices to the dead letter office. The total number of presidential offices July 1 last was 8,051, of which 109 were first-class, 740 second-class and 2.730 third-class. The aggregate gross receipts at the first, second and third class offices were $05,282,305 and the total salaries $0,203,900. Since Nov. 2, 1894, there have been 2,459 positions in the postoffices added to the classified service. This leaves ns the only positions at firstclass postoffices that are now excepted front civil service examinations assistant postmasters and principal cashiers; at second-class offices, assistant postmasters. Attention is called to the fact that notwithstanding the increase in gross receipts the increase in the force was less than 50 per cent, of previous years. During the year twenty-nine stations and 120 substations were established, and one station and seven substations were discontinued, a net increase of 141 stations and substations. Fifty-five postoffices of the second, third and fourth classes were discontinued during the year, and fifty-four stations and substations were established to take their places. The experiment of free delivery in forty-five towns and villages cost the department $8,247. leaving an unexpended balance of $1,758. Investigation showed that in a majority of the offices the gross receipts had decreased since the establishment of the service, the department being compelled to send money to some offices for the payment of the letter carriers’ salaries. Congress did not appropriate for further permanent or experimental service, and the experiment was necessarily discontinued with the dose of the fiscal year. There are sixty-three offices which were entitled to the establishment of the free delivery service during the fiscal year ended June 30. IS9O, but the service could not be established at more than nineteen offices without entailing a greater expense upon the limited appropriations for the current year than the maintenance of the established service would permit. The rural free delivery experiment was in operation at points in thirty States by the Ist of this month, and the result of this test will be received in a special report to Congress in December. The aggregate number of domestic and international money orders issued during the year was 24,947.849, amounting to $185,953,254, and their payments and repayments were $24,140,848, amounting to $177,057,5G7. There was an increase of over 8 per cent, in the whole number of money orders issued, showing growth of the system and the total increase in revenue from both the domestic and international business was $74,14V. The total amount of bills of exchange resulting from exchange during the year was $8;291,799, and the balances received from abroad for the some purpose were $201.57a

In the dead letter office 6,253,363 piece* of original mail matter were receired, about $33,850 being inclosed, and 87 per cent, of the money restored. Letters also came containing drafts, checks, etc., of the apparent value of $955,095, about 92 per cent, of this being returned to owner*. For the fiscal year ending June 30, IX9S. the report asks for appropriations of $17,000,000 for compensation of postmasters; $11,000,000 for Clerk hire allowances; $1,000,000 to cover rent, fuel and light at first, second and third class offices; $150,000 for miscellaneous and incidental items, including furniture; $75,000 for canceling machines; $15,000 for advertising; $195,000 for postoffice supplies, and $13,320,500 for free delivery, including salaries of 12,950 regular carriers.

WILL SEND PICTURE BY WIRE.

Thomas A. Edison Talks About Hi* Latest Invention. Thomas A. Edison has about perfected his apparatus for transmitting pictures by wire. By the use of the instrument

any kind of a sketch can be sent. In a talk about his new invention Mr. Edison said: “There is nothing absolutely new in this idea. It is simply a development of the old Cassella system, in which the

AS SENT BY WIRE.

transmission was made along a sort of pendulum. I had thought out and perfected the machine some years ago, when the telephone came along and stopped me. A business man desiring to give a practical description of a design in dry goods, prints or in forms could make his meaning readily clearer over the telephone. “It afterward occurred to me that the perfection of this little instrument might benefit my friends in the newspaper profession, and it is for them that I have designed it. 1 want to say that no newspaper has or will have a monopoly in the autotelagraph. I shall reserve the patent and sell the machines to any newspaper that cares to buy it. “The process is simple enough. The artist makes his sketch in the usual man-

EDISON AND THE AUTOTELEGRAPH.

tier. It doesn't matter what it may be. Directly the drawing is finished he wraps it around the little cylinder at the top of the machine; he presses a button, and in that same instant, while the machines revolve, the man in the newspaper room, say 1,000 miles away, is reproducing that sketch. “I cau now say the instrument is ready for use. You could handle it tft once with absolute certainty. Before I attempt to put it on the market I shall try to reduce it to a portable size, so that the artist sent to Chicago or St. Louis may carry it in his pocket, dump it down on any kind of telegraph table and transmit the drawing with just as much ease and as little ceremony as he would use iu telegraphing a 200-word story. “In less than four mouths from this time the instrument in its portable form will be ready for the market. We can now use the instrument at 500 miles with ease, at 1,000 with reasonable accuracy, and before 1 have finished I will try to span the continent from ’Frisco to New York.”

NEW REVENUE LAWS.

It I* Said Some Tariff Legislation May Be Knacted. ' A Washington correspondent says that it is assumed as one of the things very likely to occur that there will be tariff legislation without regard to currency reform enactments. Speculation upon this point is taking a form which leaves little room for doubt that the matter has been thoroughly discussed by the friends and advisers of the President-elect and that, sufficient pledges have been given by free silver Republican Senators to insure the passage of new revenue laws whenever the word is given. As time progresses the chances will" increase for the enactment of a new revenue law during the short term of the present Congress, but it will not do to assume this as one of the sure things. The election returns from the several territories are of a character to blast whatever hopes they may have entertained of being admitted into the sisterhood of States during the life of this or the fifty-fifth Congress. Xo Voting population that is committed to free silver can hope to receive any fators of that sort at the hands of a Congress that is committed to a gold standard.

SWAMPED WITH LETTERS.

Four Thousand a Bay Pour In on the President-Elect. A Canton correspondent says: The Fresident-elect has not attempted as yet to answer any of the great mass of telegrams and letters which have been deluged upon him. except in the special instances of Chairman Hanna, Mr. Bryan, and one or two others. The telegrams have come at the rate of 3,000 a day, and the letters exceed 1,000 daily. Possibly later, when normal conditions are restored, a uniform code of acknowledgment and response will be prepared, somewhat similar to the plan adopted*by Mr. Cleveland. As far as possible, Mr. McKinley will give the communications his personal attention. Some unique messages have reached Mr. McKinley. One telegram was in impassioned poetry. Another, from Wyoming, stated that a woman presidential elector would vote for McKinley for the first time in history.

Bryan’s Defeat Killed Her.

Mrs. Mary V. Marvin, wife of a business man of Spokane, Wash., died the day following election. The direct cause of her death is attributed to Bryan’s defeat. She met her husband at the door as he came home and eagerly inquired if Bryan was elected. Upon receiving a negative reply she threw up her arms and fell to the lloor, expiring instantly.

Where Our Money Goes.

According to the annual report of Paymaster General Stewart, the cost of maintaining the United States navy last year, exclusive' of any increase to it, and the permanent improvements at yards and docks, was $15,494,802.

A NATION’S THANKS.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND NAMES DATE OF THE FESTIVALProclamation Appoint*Thandt j,K«v, 26, a* the Day for Acknowledgment to the God of Nations for Bleaslage Vouchaafed the United State*. Homage to the Unlveraal Ruler. The President Wednesday issued th* following thanksgiving proclamation: “By the President of the States: The people of the United St*cs should never be unmindful of the gratitude they owe the God of nations, for his watchfnl care which has shielded them from disaster and pointed out to them the way of peace and happiness. Nor should they ever refuse to acknowledge with contrite hearts their proneness to turn "away from God’s teachings and to follow with sinful pride after their own devices. “To the end that these* thoughts may be quickened, it is fitting that on a day especially appointed we should join together in approaching the throne of grace with praise and supplication. “Therefore, Iy Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 26th day of the present month of November, to be kept and observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer throughout our land. “On that day let all our people forego their usual work and occupation and, assembled in their accustomed places of worship, let them with one accord render thanks to the Buler of the Universe for our preservation as a nation and our deliverance from every threatened danger; for the peace that has dwelt within our boundaries; for our defense against disease and pestilence during the year that has passed; for the plenteous rewards that have followed the labors of our husbandmen; and for all the other blessings that have been vouchsafed to us. "And let us, through the mediation of him who has taught us how to pray, implore the forgiveness of our sins and a continuation of heavenly favor. “Let us not forget on this day of thanksgiving the poor and needy, and by deeds of charity let out offerings of praise be made more acceptable in the sight of the Lord. "Witness my hand and the seal of the United States, which I have caused to be hereto affixed. “Done at the City of Washington this 4th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and of the independence of the United States of America the on* hundred and twenty-first. “GROVER CLEVELAND. “By the President. “RICHARD OLXEY, “Secretary of State.”

RAILROAD INTERESTS.

Prospects of Great Increase of General Traffic. Chicago railroad'officials say that for months their business has been exceedingly dull and earnings have been below the dull months of the last dull year. Now a revival is looked for in freight circles. Officials predict one of the heaviest movements of merchandise known in many years. Country merchants as well as the jobbers in the large cities have allowed their stocks to run down to the minimum. The movement of west-bound merchandise has been the lightest for many years. Thousands of stocks must be replenished and country merchants will buy heavily. This means heavy loads for the railroads, and correspondingly heavy earnings. No falling off in the heavy east-bound movement of grain, which began under the cut freight rates of last month, is looked for. Orders for cars are coming into general freight offices from all points in the west, nnd more than one road fears a car famine. As most of this grain will move under contracts made at the reduced rates there will not be large increases in revenue from that class of freight, but the greatest economy of operation as well as the greatest amount of revenue will develop from the movement of loaded’ cars both ways. Passenger men are also expecting heavy business. Commercial make up a large .percentage of all roads’ passengers. Many merchants prefer buying their goods at the large centers to ordering of traveling men, and they, too, will soon be using passenger trains. The winter tourist busiuess also has been delayed.

FORTUNES IN WHEAT.

Men Who Have Made Money Ont of the Recent Rise. Fortunes have been made by men who were on the right side of the market in the recent upward jump of wheat. Following are some of the Chicagoans who have added to their bank accounts and the amounts they have garnered: Johu Cudahv, $400,000; W. R. Linn, $300,000; W. T. Baker. $150,000; F. E. Frazier, $75,000; F. K. Dunn, $75,000; George T. Smith,s7s,ooo; ArthurOrr,sso,ooo; C. L. Raymond, $50,000; J. A. Patten, $50,000; M. G. Mitchell, $50,000; John Dupee, $50,000; J. F. Riimsey, $50,000; T. M. Baxter, $50,000; W. C. Comstock, $40,000; John Barrett, $30,000; C. W. Brega, $25,000; @. A. Mair. $25,000; C. ,T. Singer, $25,000; John Dwight, $25,000; August Brosseau, $25,000; Harry Champlin, $25,000; J. A. Rankin, $20,000; R. Pringle, $20,000: John Scott, $20,000. In addition to these there are many smaller winners and a host of commission firms and scalpers who have been able to keep the amount of their winnings from becoming known. St. Louis also shows some big winnings. At the head of the list stand W. T. Ilaarstick and W. D. Orthwein, with SIOO,OOO each to their credit. Ben Boones made $75,000, O. H. Spencer $60,000, E. B. White and John Milliken $40,000 each. David R. Francis, Hoke Smith’s successor as Secretary of the Interior in Cleveland’s Cabinet, also made a big haul.. Outside of Chicago aud St. Louis, the biggest winner is C. A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis miller, who cleared over SIOO,OOO.

No Second-Class Fares.

Lines members of the Central Passenger and Trunk Lines’ committees are considering a proposition to abolish sec-ond-class fares. Another matter of more than ordinary interest to a large number of people concerns the policy to be followed next year in handling clergy business. It is said many of the passenger men are more than pleased with the manner in which Western roads handled tha clergy business this year and that a like plan may be adopted by the Eastern lines. That, however, is hardly likely. The misuse of charity fares, protective forms of excursion tickets, government transportation orders, interterritorial party fares and a number of other interesting subjects are docketed for consideration.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Samuel H. Crow, of Lyons, lowa, is dead at the age of 74 years: Edna Farson, 5 years old, fell in New York and her teeth cut her tongue almost ifi' two. She bled to death. Miss Laura Bendolan committed suicide at Fremont, Neb. A love affair Is thought to have caused the act

GRADERS AND THEIR HOME.

Poor Families Whose Only Shelter I* an Ordinary Tent. At St. Louis, Mo., there are several regiments of poor people dwelling In tents, and already the first eases of •uttering and wretchedness have been recorded. These people are "graders"’ and their families. The graders are the men who perform the labor of leveling the elevations, precursory to the erection of buildings, in the unimproved and hilly parts of the city. As a rule, they are not inured to the hardship of living in tents. Sometimes they spend successive winters living in, houses. Then, again, a cold season strikes them, when from an economical demand they are compelled to seek the refuge of

CLOSED FOR THE NIGHT.

tents. Their number can only be guessed. Five thousand Is a low estimate. And there are many children. A visit was made to the lots on Euclid avenue, near "Westminster. A dozen tents, huddled together, composed this little liamlet. There was no shelter of trees or homes to the miniature plateau they stood upon. A high growth of dark weeds that emitted a sickly odor of decaying vegetation surrounded the tents. A ramshackle shed for horses stood in their midst. All around was scattered the debris from the table. There was no drainage—no convenient rill or sewer to wash away refuse. Tin cans, ashes, relegated utensils, and cast-off wearing apparel—little of that —were strewn around. To the southwest of this scene the tall, stately mansions of the boulevard formed a background for this homely, but not homelike, picture—a constant saddening in its enormity. A noise of a wailing infant attracted atention to a tent a little apart from the others. The five O’Donnell children were the lone tenants. The eldest is a girl of 7. A ba.by in the cradle was crying as though heart-broken. A little chap about 5 years old was rocking it, trying to calm his little sister. The father was working on the sewer construction". The mother was out doing a day’s washing. Before the newspaper men left the camp, Mrs. O’Donnell returned. She apologized for the dirt in her tent, and for the untidy condition of her eliildrev, who were unwashed and barefooted. She was not afraid to trust them with a fire—oh, no! They had all been burned and had learned to fear it. Surely, experience was a dear teacher here. This family was prosperous, comparatively. A few feet away lives Mrs. Salisbury and her three children. Her son, a boy of six, was sick in bed, anil had no medical attendance. His tent was a dilapidated affair that would be at the mercy of an ordinary wind storm were it not for the protection afforded by a high growth of. vile-smelling weeds. Her husband had been sick and out of work, and they were living from hand

DURING A RAIN.

to mouth. All their clothing was of thin texture, and they had no bed clothing. They slept as many as possible huddled together in one bed, for the sake of warmth, and to get under the only spot in the tent where the rains did not soak through. Only at meal times—when they could afford a mealdo they bum a fire in their stove. Mrs. Salisbury had received no help from any one. Often they had gone to bed supperless. She would not ask her neighbors for help—they were in the same boat of penury. She was ignorant of the method of-seciying outside aid. While at present there are not many of these people in dire distress, it is but a question of the advent of the severe cold weather when their appeals for aid will be universal.

For Polishing Shoes.

A Canadian has recently'patented a shoe polisher that is to fill a long felt want. The accompanying illustration show's the contrivance. A strip passes

THE NEW CONTRIVANCE.

under the roller, which Is covered with an absorbent containing the polishing compound. The polisher has hand grips at each end by which it is manipulated with a seesaw motion of the hands.

Honors from the Czar.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild has received from Czur Nicholas the grand cordon of the Order of the White Eagle in recognition of the services rendered by the banking house to his majesty. When you think you have heart disease, the real trouble la probably Indigestion. i t